Re: [Cialug] Tracking down crash

["Jon Clemons" <clemdog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Title: Tracking down crash

There were some issues with that kernel version. I get the latest version from Redhat and install it.

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From: Korver, Aaron

To: 'cialug@xxxxxxxxxx'

Sent: Monday, May 03, 2004 10:38 AM

Subject: [Cialug] Tracking down crash

I'm trying to track down just why a server crashed.  Every now and then this server, running RH 8.0 kernel 2.4.18-14smp just crashes.  The weird thing is that you can still ping it, but you can't get a terminal, you can't ssh into it, you can't http into it.  I'm looking around in the logs and it looks like the last thing logged was the 4:02 am cron stuff.  But that doesn't mean it was a cron task that killed it does it?  I can't find any hard evidence that says "Here's what made me crash".

So, the question I am wondering is how do people on the list go about tracking down a system failure?

This is the second time that this has happened to this server.  First was after about 110 days uptime, second was after 223 days uptime.