[TriLUG] How would you diagnose "random" system hangs?

tomed at bellsouth.net tomed at bellsouth.net
Mon May 7 12:18:29 EDT 2007


I've had sudden lockups happen when a pci card goes, in my case flaky
e1000 nic cards.

Tom Ed

At Sun, 6 May 2007 19:31:24 -0400 (EDT),
Andrew Perrin wrote:
> 
> My home system has been freezing up at apparently random times -- usually 
> when I'm at work, so I come home to a frozen machine that has to be 
> cold-booted. How would you go about checking this out? I've let memtest86 
> run continuously for 24 hours with no errors, so I don't think it's 
> memory. I have the sensors reporting hourly to a log, and there are no 
> temperature concerns (generally between 37 and 40C). There's nothing of 
> interest in syslog that rings any bells to me. Any ideas?
> 
> The machine is an ASUS A8N-E, nForce chipset, with an Athlon64 dual-core 
> CPU and 4GB of RAM in it. It's running debian etch, but with a 
> home-compiled kernel 2.6.20.7.
> 
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