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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!ais.net!uunet!in1.uu.net!205.228.248.26!news.vcnet.com!news From: Joe Biniskiewicz <joeb@joeb.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Server locks up Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 10:47:55 -0700 Organization: Internet Access of Ventura County 805.383.3500 Lines: 32 Message-ID: <335510CB.2AAB@joeb.com> References: <5itq8m$701$1@shiva.usa.net> Reply-To: joeb@joeb.com NNTP-Posting-Host: ultra.joeb.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (Win95; I) To: steve@nano.net Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:6652 Are you by chance using an NE-2000 clone ethernet card? If so, try a different card, anything else. I had a very similar problem and that was the cause. Steve Suhre wrote: > > I'm running BSD on a network machine that periodically locks up. > This particular server will just hang, it no longer responds to > inetd requests, ping, or keyboard input including a warm boot > (cntrl, alt, del). Powering this machine down and back up results > in a nominal boot up, and it seems to run fine until it locks up > again in a week or 2. There are no signs of any distress in any of > the system log files, the last record in the log file is usually just > a lame delegation or something similar. The lock up seems to happen > randomly, and has occurred during low traffic times (Sun evening) > as well as high (midday midweek). > > It seems like a hardware problem, it's a new machine, just a few > months old. The system is not giving me any clues... Any sugestions > or related experience will be appreciated. > > Hardware configuration: > > Mother board is Free Tech 586VX > CPU 686/166 Cyrix P166 > Bus Logic BT946C SCSI controller > Trident video Card VGATD 9680 PCI 1Mb DRAM W/MPEG > 64 Mb RAM - EDO SIMM's > > -- > Steve Suhre > steve@SmallWeb.com