On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 12:54:08 -0600 Ryan Ware <whiterabbit1 at gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 12:13:54 -0600, Josh Trutwin > <josh at trutwins.homeip.net> wrote: > > I'm having some annoying problems with hardware (purchased from > > one of the TCLUG classified's incidentally!) and I was hoping > > maybe someone's had similar issues and can offer some advice. > > > > Anyway, it's a SuSE 8.1 box, PIII 500 I think - I can get detailed > > specs the next time it's up. Every now and then it just goes > > down, no messages in any of the logs. Sometimes when I'm logged > > in and working on it, sometimes overnight. Right now it seems to > > go down once or twice every 24 hours or so. Last time it happened > > in the middle of the night and I left an ssh connection tailing > > the messages log. In the morning it was dead, nothing interesting > > on the log window. Nothing interesting in any of the other logs > > either. > > That sounds like a kernel panic > http://resource.intel.com/telecom/support/tnotes/tnbyos/2000/tn062.htm > has some general info. Good link. "Depending on the nature of the panic, the kernel will log all information it can prior to locking up. Since a kernel panic is a drastic failure, it is uncertain how much information will be logged." I'm not seeing anything in the logs that would indicate a kernel panic though. I've had plenty of these and even the more severe ones usually manage to dump something into a log somewhere. Josh _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list