interesting problems

[Hawke]

sinck@ugive.com wrote:
> 
> Bad memory.  Hot chip.  Insufficient sacrifices.
nope. brand new and burned in for 3 days just to make sure

> 
> Do you have all the happy updates to rh7?
current with all that I can find.

> Does the message log have any trace of kernel oopses?
none that I've found (will have to run logtail on it though)

> Can you ctrl-alt-f1 to a term, or is it harder than that?
when the system locks, I can't even ctrl-alt-backspace and 
even the numlock locks to whatever mode it was in at the time

> Can you ctrl-alt-backspace to shoot X, or is it harder than that?
see above

> Can you ping/surf/ssh into the box from another box?
nope. it locks when thinsg go wrong (which isn't often and only
just tonight for some strange reason)

> And, based on the UPS thread unravelling on the list, how is your
> power quality?
well, not sure about the stability of the power system here.
no brownouts or bumps that I've noticed.

> 
> I've heard weird things about the *frequency* of the power from the
> wall changing doing evil and nasty things to the computers.  (Multiple
> big compressors apparently on the same mains took the frequency down
> to 50Hz when they kicked.)
> 
> David
> 

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