[Techtalk] mysterious system halts - how to prevent/fix/detect?

[Julie Meloni]

M> On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 05:41:38AM -0700, Julie Meloni wrote:
>> * Sunday night at 8, I rebooted at 4 the next morning .
>> * Then Monday night at 7, I rebooted at 4 the next morning.
>> * Yesterday it halted at 4 in the afternoon, I rebooted it at 8pm.
>> * Just five hours later it halted, I rebooted it, and it's currently
>> still running.
>> 
>> This is the current output of free:
>>              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
>> Mem:        261732     258348       3384          0      91568     132760
>> -/+ buffers/cache:      34020     227712
>> Swap:       238936          0     238936

M> Can you tell us which kernel version? (uname -a will tell you)

See?  I knew I'd forget something.

2.2.16

M> Mind you, if you haven't compiled a new kernel for that machine, and it stayed up for 8 months
M> with only 1 reboot, then it is unlikely to be the kernel...

Yeah.... :(

I'm pretty much terrified by kernels, so I haven't touched it.


Thanks,
Julie