[Wolves] Crash Help Please.

[David Goodwin]

Gary wrote:
> Can anyone help ?
> 
> For some reason, at random intervals, 2 computers we use at work are just hanging. When you go to the console, you can't even log in as the whole system has frozen ?
> 
> Both systems are suse 9.1 pro, 1 is dual Xeon and 1 is Dual Athlon, both systems have 2 network cards each, scsi and 2 or 4 GB ram. This also happened on our new IBM Xseries server with 8Gb ram, so I am totally baffled ???
> 
> I originally thought this may be a kernel problem, so I installed 2.6.6 and the crashing seemed to go away for 2 weeks, but it has happened yet again ?
> 
> Has anyone any ideas on what may be causing this, or what logs I should be targeting to see the problem ?
> 

/var/log/messages etc

Trouble is, if the machine locks up "properly" then it won't have 
written anything.

> Or should I go back to SuSE 9.0, using the old 2.4 kernel ?
> 

Perhaps they are overheating?
The only unstable box I have currently running Linux has cooling problems.


> BTW, is there anyone good with linux administration looking for a Job ?

Pass, but I do know companies who will do that sort of remote 
admin/management for you. If you're interested I can forward some details.



David.