Re: The Death is back .

[Bruce Smith <bruce@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 
> Any of you who remember by "Dieing in it's sleep problem"  will be glad to knwo
> that the problem is back.  The server ran for several days,  and then I went to
> lunch and came back to find it dead (blank screen, no pingy, nothing).  This is
> with a Generic NE2000 ethernet card (10Mbps) installed,  I thought I had traced
> the problem to a 3com Fast ethernet card.  The system reboots with some errors
> on one of the partitions,  and then no longer lets me set a network route
> through the ethernet card,  although the interface is up,  and I can set host
> routes,  and communicate with those hosts.  If I try to set a network route it
> complains that the network mask is incorrect,  although it has the correct mask
> on the 'ifconfig' output.  This just seems very wierd.  I will now re-install
> and try newer kernel versions (I have 2.0.30 installed).  Could this be a SCSI
> controller/driver problem?
> 
> One other interesting detail,  I got a GPF (yes, a general protection fault)
> before the machine crashed.  The GPF was generated by a shell script that
> merges two text files. !!! I've never seen one of these under Linux before,  I
> had MS flashbacks.

You can try upgrading to 2.0.32 or 2.0.33, it shouldn't hurt anything,
but I have a feeling that you have a hardware problem somewhere.

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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
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