On Tuesday 11 September 2001 07:00, Jamie Kerwick wrote: > thanks for the tips, > i've checked all of the filesystems but the come up clean, (when i reboot > after the hang it does give some errors and cleans them ). > would you say it was more than likely a hardware problem though rather than > software ? (i.e. i want to get my boss to buy me a better PC ) > > thanks > > Jamie > You can check any software you added recently, but it is likely hardware. It may be a thermal shutdown problem which would happen when the > > From: civileme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Jamie Kerwick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Subject: Re: [newbie] System crashing need advice to find the problem > >Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 12:40:41 -0400 > > > >On Tuesday 11 September 2001 06:15, Jamie Kerwick wrote: > > > how do i go about using fsck. I've tried fsck -A -C and it gave me a > > > warning about mounted filesystems. Can i just unmount all of my > > > >partitions, > > > > > fsck and then remount , or do i have to do it partition at a time? > > > > > > Jamie > > > >partition at a time... and of course you have to boot the rescue CD to > >check > >/. > > > > > From: civileme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Jamie Kerwick" > > > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > >Subject: Re: [newbie] System crashing need advice to find the problem > > > >Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 11:57:00 -0400 > > > > > > > >On Tuesday 11 September 2001 04:28, Jamie Kerwick wrote: > > > > > Up until thursday night my linux box had been working perfectly now > > > >it > > > > > > > keeps freezing up when i leave it on overnight. Now initially i > > > >thought > > > > > >it > > > > > > > > > my be a cron job that was crashing it as it seemed to happen at > > > >similar > > > > > > > times. From the cron logs the last entry was 3am everynight. So i > > > >tried > > > > > > > manually running each of the daily cron jobs seperately and they > > > > > all > > > > > > > >seemed > > > > > > > > > to work fine (this was yesterday) now when i came to my desk this > > > > > > > >morning > > > > > > > > > the box had frozen at 5.09 pm (the clock was visible). Basically > > > >what i > > > > > > > would like to know is how to go about finding out what the problem > > > >is, > > > > > >ie > > > > > > > > > what logs should i be looking at etc. (its a long shot but if > > > > > anyone has any ideas please share, i don't expect any to though > > > > > from such a vague, general description) > > > > > > > > > > cheers > > > > > > > > > > jamie > > > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > > > > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at > > > > > > > >http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp > > > >updatedb or makewhatis > > > > > > > >My guess would be ide-hdd > > > > > > > >try to use an fsck check for your filesystem(s) and see what happens. > > > > > > > >The other obvious one would be memory, but usually that will show ALL > > > >the > > > > > >time. > > > > > > > >Civileme > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at > > > >http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp > > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp
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