[CentOS] System hanged - no info in logs.

Thu Apr 12 14:32:41 UTC 2012
Rafał Radecki <radecki.rafal at gmail.com>

The system was not rebooted, it just was not responsive (ssh) and has a gap
in logfiles for 15 minutes. After 15 minutes it started responding.

Best regards,
R.

W dniu 12 kwietnia 2012 16:08 użytkownik Phil Schaffner <
Philip.R.Schaffner at nasa.gov> napisał:

> Rafał Radecki wrote on 04/12/2012 03:07 AM:
> > Hi All.
> >
> > I had today a problem with my mail server (2.6.18-274.12.1.el5 #1 SMP Tue
> > Nov 29 13:37:35 EST 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux, CentOS release 5.7
> > (Final)). On my Cacti graphs I see that there has been much I/O write on
> > the disks and then there is no more info. Also in logs (messages, dmesg,
> > netconsole) there is no info for about 15 minutes when there was a
> problem
> > with the server.
> >
> > I would like to have some info in such situations. Do you know any
> > solutions?
> >
>
> Your description is unclear. Did the system recover, or did it have to
> be power cycled or otherwise rebooted?
>
> A hang with no log information can sometimes be caused by driver issues.
>
> The first thing to try is a "yum update" to the current and supported
> version 5.8.
>
> Phil
>
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