[CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

Wed Mar 9 23:32:33 UTC 2011
Rudi Ahlers <Rudi at SoftDux.com>

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 1:17 AM, Michael Eager <eager at eagerm.com> wrote:
> Rudi Ahlers wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 12:31 AM, Michael Eager <eager at eagerm.com> wrote:
>>> Dr. Ed Morbius wrote:
>>>
>>>> If the issue is repeated but rare system failures on one of a set of
>>>> similarly configured hosts, I'd RMA the box and get a replacement.  End
>>>> of story.
>>> I'll repeat:  this is a house-made system.  There's no vendor to RMA to.
>>
>>
>>
>> I don't know where you are, but in our country we can RMA anything and
>> everything. Apart from CPU's. So, even a cheap desktop mobo could be
>> RMA'd, as long as I can prove to the suppliers it's faulty, and it's
>> within the warrenty period
>
> I responded to Dr. Morbius' suggestion that I "RMA the box".
> There is vendor to RMA the box to.
>
> If I knew that it was a motherboard problem, I could RMA it.
> Or disk, or PSU, or network card, or whatever.  But, as I've mentioned,
> there's no indication what causes the system to hang.  There is no
> way at this point to prove that it is a defective motherboard.
>
>
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As far as I can see you were giving a bucked load of advice, which you
haven't even bothered to follow yet. You're the only one who could
actually do anything about the problem.

No amount of suggestions made on this list will fix the problem for
you. You need to actually take apart the server and see what's going
on.


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Rudi Ahlers
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