[ale] Wierd Linux Problem

[Sergio Chaves]

We had a Acer server here with exactly the same problem and it turned out 
that the motherboard was fried.
At first, we changed the memory and it let us bring the system up but would 
crash again in 2 hours or so.
Sent server to Acer- last month of warranty ! - and it was determined that 
the motherboard was fried.
You may want to check into it.

Good luck

Sergio






>From: "Michael D. Hirsch" <mhirsch at nubridges.com>
>To: "Steven Jasmin" <tektronik at bellsouth.net>, <ale at ale.org>
>Subject: Re: [ale] Wierd Linux Problem
>Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 10:06:12 -0400
>
>Since no one else has answered, here's my impression.  You have bad
>memory.  Try pulling banks out one at a time and see if anything
>improves.
>
>--michael
>
>On Tuesday 29 October 2002 04:24 pm, Steven Jasmin wrote:
> > Heres the long and the short of it. Im a freshmen at Emory been into
> > computers for a long time. Finally decided to learn about linux about
> > 2.5 years ago. I have been messing with it off and on ever since.
> > Nothing serious, I am normally a very utilitarian person so i learn
> > to do what i need to do which has slowed my linux learning down quite
> > a bit since im not one to just sit and fuck around with shit. Anyways
> > i am now at the point where i run a website, host an ftp site, have
> > samba running and can navigate realitively well through the linux
> > system. I am running mandrake 8.2. The servers main focus is storage.
> > At the moment i have 2 60 gigs a 12 gig and a 120 gig hard drive
> > along with a 2 gig drive that the os is on.  Everything was running
> > fine. I would occasionally get wierd kernel panics but nothing that a
> > reboot didnt solve.  All of a sudden one day the server just
> > completely crashed and when i rebooted i keep hanging after it tries
> > to free unused kernel memory.
> >
> > The exact hang occurs after this line:
> > Freeing Unsued Kernel Memory: 260K freed
> >
> > This happens on both a normal boot up and a fail safe boot up. Im
> > downloading 9.0 and am gonna install that just wondering if anyone
> > has heard of this error before. I looked over google and everything
> > that i could find seem to be with messed up libraries but i have no
> > idea how they got messed up in the first place.
> >
> > Thanks for any info and help.....
> >
> >
> > Steven
> >
> >
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