Re: Diagnosing occassional random reboots

2006-11-02 Thread Dougie Nisbet
Mike McCarty wrote: Dougie Nisbet wrote: [snip] But a hunch is a hunch, and I'm entitled to explore it. It costs me 20 seconds to rerun lilo and boot of a different kernel. With the box Of course, you can do anything you want with your own machine. It may cost you more than 20 seconds to g

Re: Diagnosing occassional random reboots

2006-11-02 Thread Mike McCarty
Dougie Nisbet wrote: [snip] But a hunch is a hunch, and I'm entitled to explore it. It costs me 20 seconds to rerun lilo and boot of a different kernel. With the box Of course, you can do anything you want with your own machine. It may cost you more than 20 seconds to give this a try. For

Re: Diagnosing occassional random reboots

2006-11-02 Thread Dougie Nisbet
Mike McCarty wrote: Dougie Nisbet wrote: Um, if the current release is the problem, then it will never run stably I thought you said it has been running without a change for some time. I quote your exact words: A server which has been running steadily for years is beginning to reboot. To

Re: Diagnosing occassional random reboots

2006-11-01 Thread Mike McCarty
Dougie Nisbet wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: IMO, putting a different release on this machine is NOT recommended, and should be deferred until it is running stably again. I prefer trying to fix one problem at a time. If you install new software and it acts up, then is it the new software? Is it the

Re: Diagnosing occassional random reboots

2006-11-01 Thread Dougie Nisbet
Mike McCarty wrote: IMO, putting a different release on this machine is NOT recommended, and should be deferred until it is running stably again. I prefer trying to fix one problem at a time. If you install new software and it acts up, then is it the new software? Is it the old hardware getting

Re: Diagnosing occassional random reboots

2006-11-01 Thread Mike McCarty
Dougie Nisbet wrote: A server which has been running steadily for years is beginning to reboot. To the best of my knowledge, nothing has changed. It is a dual-processor PIII. It runs stable. [snip] Sounds like a hardware problem. I suggest shutting down, powering down, then unplugging. Open

Re: Diagnosing occassional random reboots

2006-11-01 Thread Dougie Nisbet
George Borisov wrote: Dougie Nisbet wrote: I'm not sure how to go about tracking this down. My searching of the archives shows that these symptoms could describe a faulty physical component, such as memory or PSU. That would be my suggestion as well. You should check that all of the fans in t

Re: Diagnosing occassional random reboots

2006-11-01 Thread Dougie Nisbet
David Jardine wrote: "Tucked away in the loft", you say. Is dust building up somewhere along your power supply line? In a multiple-socket extension, perhaps. A long shot, but I once had this problem. I think the dust caused momentary short circuits, not long enough to blow a fuse but lon

Re: Diagnosing occassional random reboots

2006-11-01 Thread George Borisov
Dougie Nisbet wrote: > > I'm not sure how to go about tracking this down. My searching of the > archives shows that these symptoms could describe a faulty physical > component, such as memory or PSU. That would be my suggestion as well. You should check that all of the fans in the machine are wo

Re: Diagnosing occassional random reboots

2006-10-31 Thread Marty
Dougie Nisbet wrote: A server which has been running steadily for years is beginning to reboot. To the best of my knowledge, nothing has changed. It is a dual-processor PIII. It runs stable. It is tucked away in the loft and usually has no monitor attached so tracking this down is difficult.

Re: Diagnosing occassional random reboots

2006-10-31 Thread David Jardine
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 05:29:29PM +, Dougie Nisbet wrote: > A server which has been running steadily for years is beginning to > reboot. To the best of my knowledge, nothing has changed. It is a > dual-processor PIII. It runs stable. > > It is tucked away in the loft and usually has no moni