Has anyone ever seen this problem?

[JD Austin]

der.hans wrote:

> Am 21. Oct, 2005 schwätzte JD Austin so:
>
>> I have a new client that has a weird problem with their linux file 
>> server.
>> It is rebooting without warning several times a day.
>
>
> You might want to start grabbing system info to see what's going on prior
> to the shutdowns.
>
I did that.. absolutely nothing :(  There are --MARK entries but nothing 
that would give away why it is rebooting.

> I have a script called sys_stats.sh you could look at. I haven't in a 
> long
> time, so it might be out of date...
>
Nice script!  I was doing some of that already.

> https://www.LuftHans.com/unix/
>
> My script doesn't capture temperature info. gkrellm will do that for you.
> I think it has a 'save the info' option.

Looks like gkrellm is a gnome app - machine isnt running X except over vnc.
There are kernel modules to monitor temperature.. will see if I can get 
them installed remotely.

>
> I believe there's a debian package that has tools for stuff like my
> sys_stats script. Probably better than my script, but I didn't see the
> package with a quick search.
>
> Turn up the syslog output and capture at the lowest level, debug.
>
> Is there anything else plugged in to that UPS?
>
There are two other computers that are normally off.  That was my first 
guess that the UPS was having too much power drawn from it.  I had them 
remove the UPS from the equation and the problem persisted.

> When plugged in to the wall was the UPS unplugged?
>
Yes.

> Causes I can think of:
>
> not enough juice ( the 500 W power supply should take care of that )
> overheating ( the extra fans should help, but maybe cpu fan is on funny )
> buggy mboard or ram ( install one of the memtest packages and test )
> buggy UPS
> someone keeps rebooting it ( leave the keyboard there, but unattached )
>
Ah.. Thats a good point about the CPU fan. 
Been trying memtest, passed so far.  Good suggestion.

> The last one should be causing syslog output.
>
> ciao,
>
> der.hans
>
Thanks for your help!

JD

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