[CentOS] Remote reboot problem
Chris Mauritz
chrism at imntv.com
Sun Jun 4 14:22:50 UTC 2006
Sam Drinkard wrote:
>
>
> Chris Mauritz wrote:
>
>> Sam Drinkard wrote:
>>
>>> Don't know if this might be hardware or software related, but it
>>> seems that every time I attempt to do a remote reboot of the
>>> machine, everything shuts down normally, and it never comes back.
>>> Just returned from the co-lo site, and when I plugged the monitor
>>> in, it had gone to the point of "rebooting" and hung. This is 4.3
>>> on x-86.
>>
>>
>> I have the same problem with an a few old Intel 815 chipset P3 boxes,
>> but it's never annoyed me enough to fix it. 8-) I agree with
>> Rodrigo that it's likely some sort of acpi issue
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>>
> I'll try the acpi route prior to the next reboot. Just looked, and
> it's an AMD Sempron 3100. The machine runs flawlessly except for this
> remote reboot problem. I normally don't bother trying to reboot
> except when there is a kernel update that fixes something. As this is
> a production machine too, I try to leave it running as much as
> possible, and it's a PITA to have to get someone from the ISP's staff
> to meet me at the co-lo site to let me in. As for the arch, I
> generally use i386 to indicate anything intel or amd that is not a
> 64-bit processor, which as Jim mentioned is rather old terminology. I
> came along when 8088's were the mainstay of computers. Gosh, thinking
> about that, it seems like it was a century ago !
While it doesn't address the underlying problem, if it's a PITA to get
your datacenter folks to power cycle machines, why don't you get a
network-attached power strip? APC used to sell them rather cheaply and
you could telnet (or use a web interface) to remotely power cycle
individual outlets on the power strip. I used to have these until there
was a security exploit and APC was slow about releasing a fix. So I
took them all out of service and throw a case of beer at the datacenter
staff now and then. They're only too happy to closely monitor things
and fluff power as required now. :-)
Cheers,
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