[Klug-general] Ubuntu Freezing

[Peter Childs]

On 14 June 2010 13:00, Alan @ COMM-TECH <alan at communitytechnology.org.uk> wrote:
> On 14/06/10 09:12, Peter Childs wrote:
>> On 14 June 2010 09:05, Nathan Friend<nathan.friend at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>> Hi Peter,
>>> Any core dump files?  Sometimes can be useful to trace what was happening
>>> when the crash occurred.
>>
>> Nope, No Core Dump, No Network, (not even ping), No Nothing which is
>> what tells me its either motherboard, processor or memory.
>>
>> Peter.
>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Nathan.
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 7:44 AM, Peter Childs<pchilds at bcs.org>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 12 June 2010 19:09, Mike Evans<mike at tandem.f9.co.uk>  wrote:
>>>>> Mike it be a need for the noapic flag or something like that.  My laptop
>>>>> hits that problem.  I had it with Fedora first and now I need it with
>>>>> ubuntu.
>>>>>
>
> It sounds like hardware to me, and if the install is the same on all the
> servers and the others work fine, then setting nopic is probably just a
> bodge to get around the faulty hardware issue.
>
> In my exp usually this sort of thing is related to RAM. If it's
> practical, then I would swap the RAM between 2 servers and see if the
> crash moves with the RAM (even new RAM can be faulty - it's a numbers
> game for the manufacturers). Alan
>
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2 out of the 3 servers exhibit the same problem, at the same problem
so I doubt that would make an oz of difference!

Having done a bit of background reading.... its quite common, although
I'd not seen it in servers before. and is caused by faulty versions on
Apic in some Bios mostly ones over a few years old now....

Peter.