FW: [techtalk] Redhat Linux 7 Crashes

[David Merrill]

On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 12:31:51AM -0700, Lothan wrote:
> I didn't see anything in the system log that might help trace the problem.
> The first hiccup was a complaint that the file system was not unmounted
> cleanly (which seems appropriate considering the file system was reported
> 'busy' during shutdown) followed by a long list of errors from fsck
> complaining about dead inodes, invalid timestamps, etc. This was followed by
> a list of missing devices, drivers and modules. Based on the symptoms I've
> seen, my gut reaction was a hardware problem and I initially replaced the
> NIC since the symptoms were always preceded by a loss of all network
> connections. It happens every two to three weeks, but I could never
> duplicate it with Redhat Linux 6.1 or Windows 2000.
> 
> I'm beginning to suspect it may be something in Redhat Linux 7.0 because we
> just lost the email server with a similar crash after updating it a few
> weeks ago. I just finished installing Progeny Debian Linux at home so we'll
> see if it holds together any better.

I saw *exactly* the same situation a couple of months ago, and
eventually traced it to bad RAM. Yeah, I know that doesn't seem to
make much sense, but replacing the bad stick fixed me up.

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