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From: johne@aloha.net (John Engelhart)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Help! Panic Reboot... Why?
Date: 14 Jan 1996 11:59:43 GMT
Organization: Hawaii OnLine - Honolulu, HI
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Aaron S. Magill (amagill@pubserv.com) wrote:
: Hello. I am a Systems Administrator at Publication Services, Inc. and we have
: been experiencing somewhat regular reboots on our News Server. About once a
: week, the machine experiences a panic reboot.
:
: I have pulled the following messages from our syslog from the last 3 times, but
: we are unclear as to what we can do to prevent the problem from occuring...
:
: If anyone has any ideas or can help, please send me email (prefered) or post a
: message here. If you need more info from our system log, let me know.
:
: Thanks!
:
[ panic info snipped]
Hmm, this may or may not be your problem but if other solutions you try don't
work, look into this one:
I had a number of unusual panics() one time, most vm_faults as you're having.
The problem? One of the disks started to go bad. Swapping out the suspected
disk (it later began giving sdX: Error... problems, I can't remember
the exact error) fixed all the problems. Actually, this "disk going bad
with unusual errors" problem has happened on two of our systems. Also,
ask around here for a list of motherboards with known cache problems
and see if thats it. Could also be scsi cabeling or termination.. *shrug*
: --
: Aaron S. Magill (aaronm@pubserv.com)
: Systems Administrator
: Publication Services, Inc.
:
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