Re: systems hangs every few days

2013-07-03 Thread Chris Purves
On 2013-06-18 14:03, Jape Person wrote: On 06/18/2013 10:31 AM, Chris Purves wrote: On 2013-06-18 10:20, Rob Owens wrote: - Original Message - From: Chris Purves ch...@northfolk.ca To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 8:59:07 AM Subject: systems hangs every

Re: systems hangs every few days

2013-06-19 Thread Chris Purves
On 2013-06-18 10:20, Rob Owens wrote: - Original Message - From: Chris Purves ch...@northfolk.ca To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 8:59:07 AM Subject: systems hangs every few days After upgrading to wheezy, I get a system hang every one or two days where

Re: systems hangs every few days

2013-06-19 Thread Chris Purves
On 2013-06-18 15:57, Klaus wrote: On 18/06/13 13:59, Chris Purves wrote: I'm not running X. Do you have (a) a serial or (b) a graphical console attached to the mo-bo, or (c) do you access the unit remotely via telnet / ssh? If b or c, could you try to hook up a serial console while the

Re: systems hangs every few days

2013-06-19 Thread Chris Purves
On 2013-06-18 12:38, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 01:59:07PM +0100, Chris Purves wrote: After upgrading to wheezy, I get a system hang every one or two days where the system becomes completely unresponsive and I need do a cold boot. This is an older machine with an

Re: systems hangs every few days

2013-06-19 Thread Chris Purves
On 2013-06-18 13:05, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 6/18/2013 7:59 AM, Chris Purves wrote: After upgrading to wheezy, I get a system hang every one or two days where the system becomes completely unresponsive and I need do a cold boot. This is an older machine with an Athlon processor. I'm not

Re: systems hangs every few days

2013-06-19 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 6/19/2013 7:52 AM, Chris Purves wrote: CPU fan is about three years old and while trying to debug this previously I was running 'sensors' in a cron-job every five minutes and the CPU temp never exceeded 60 C. 60C seems high for an Athlon especially if idle. Given that you're apparently

systems hangs every few days

2013-06-18 Thread Chris Purves
After upgrading to wheezy, I get a system hang every one or two days where the system becomes completely unresponsive and I need do a cold boot. This is an older machine with an Athlon processor. I'm not running X. I don't see anything unusual in the logs. The last entry in syslog is

Re: systems hangs every few days

2013-06-18 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - From: Chris Purves ch...@northfolk.ca To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 8:59:07 AM Subject: systems hangs every few days After upgrading to wheezy, I get a system hang every one or two days where the system becomes completely

Re: systems hangs every few days

2013-06-18 Thread Chris Purves
On 2013-06-18 10:20, Rob Owens wrote: - Original Message - From: Chris Purves ch...@northfolk.ca To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 8:59:07 AM Subject: systems hangs every few days After upgrading to wheezy, I get a system hang every one or two days where

Re: systems hangs every few days

2013-06-18 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 01:59:07PM +0100, Chris Purves wrote: After upgrading to wheezy, I get a system hang every one or two days where the system becomes completely unresponsive and I need do a cold boot. This is an older machine with an Athlon processor. I'm not running X. I don't see

Re: systems hangs every few days

2013-06-18 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 6/18/2013 7:59 AM, Chris Purves wrote: After upgrading to wheezy, I get a system hang every one or two days where the system becomes completely unresponsive and I need do a cold boot. This is an older machine with an Athlon processor. I'm not running X. I don't see anything unusual

Re: systems hangs every few days

2013-06-18 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 6/18/2013 10:38 AM, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: But... Since there are no clear suspects, paranoia dictates a run of fsck on the affected file systems. Just in case. At least it is a harmless check if you can afford the downtime while the file systems are unmounted. If the PSU is headed

Re: systems hangs every few days

2013-06-18 Thread Jape Person
On 06/18/2013 10:31 AM, Chris Purves wrote: On 2013-06-18 10:20, Rob Owens wrote: - Original Message - From: Chris Purves ch...@northfolk.ca To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 8:59:07 AM Subject: systems hangs every few days After upgrading to wheezy, I

Re: systems hangs every few days

2013-06-18 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 05:18:25PM +0100, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 6/18/2013 10:38 AM, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: But... Since there are no clear suspects, paranoia dictates a run of fsck on the affected file systems. Just in case. At least it is a harmless check if you can afford the

Re: systems hangs every few days

2013-06-18 Thread Klaus
On 18/06/13 13:59, Chris Purves wrote: I'm not running X. Do you have (a) a serial or (b) a graphical console attached to the mo-bo, or (c) do you access the unit remotely via telnet / ssh? If b or c, could you try to hook up a serial console while the system hangs and check whether you