[gentoo-user] Gentoo froze after 25 days of being up

[gentoo-user] Gentoo froze after 25 days of being up

[Mark Shields]

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Greetings list.  I've had Gentoo on my home server for a little over a year
now.  I've never had a problem with it outright freezing until recently.
 Yesterday I was playing World of Warcraft on my home PC (the server is also
a router, my home PC connects through it).  I have a kvm switch so I had WoW
running on my main PC while I was working on the screen for the server.  I
had just typed emerge -av net-ping then typed yes, it got 3 lines into the
emerge and the server froze.  Internet access stopped working on the home PC
(WoW disconnected), screen froze on tty1, could not change virtual screens,
keyboard would not type and none of the lock keys (caps, scroll, etc.) would
not work.  Ctrl+alt+del wouldn't work, and I couldn't even ssh into
it.  I wasn't do anything particularly out of the ordinary with the
server, either: I had done an esync, like I do
 everyday, and updated world.  I was emerging net-ping because I thought it
was a cyclic pinger, although I ended up finding out pinger was the app I
wanted.

So that's the background information.  Here's the question:  Is there anyway
to find out why it froze?
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Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo froze after 25 days of being up

[Rafael Bugajewski]

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Am 24.03.2006 um 15:56 schrieb Mark Shields:

> s there anyway to find out why it froze?

Check the kernel logs and look if there is somethig suspicious.

Greets,

Rafael
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Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo froze after 25 days of being up

[Chad Feller]

That may or may not yield anything useful, depending on which logger you 
are using (as some don't write immediately).

Rafael Bugajewski wrote:
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>> s there anyway to find out why it froze?
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> Check the kernel logs and look if there is somethig suspicious.
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> Greets,
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> Rafael
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Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo froze after 25 days of being up

[Philip Webb]

060324 Mark Shields wrote:
> I've had Gentoo on my home server for a little over a year now.
> I've never had a problem with it outright freezing until recently.
> Yesterday I was playing World of Warcraft on my home PC
> I have a kvm switch so I had WoW running on my main PC
> while I was working on the screen for the server.
> I had just typed emerge -av net-ping then typed yes,
> it got 3 lines into the emerge and the server froze.
> Internet access stopped working on the home PC (WoW disconnected),
> screen froze on tty1, could not change virtual screens,
> keyboard would not type & no lock keys (caps, scroll, etc.) would work.
> Ctrl+alt+del wouldn't work, and I couldn't even ssh into it.

Judging from previous reports of similar problems, it sounds like hardware.
Overheating ?  Bad memory ?  Mobo failure somewhere ?

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Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo froze after 25 days of being up

[Mark Shields]

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On 3/24/06, Philip Webb <purslow@sympatico.ca> wrote:
>
> 060324 Mark Shields wrote:
> > I've had Gentoo on my home server for a little over a year now.
> > I've never had a problem with it outright freezing until recently.
> > Yesterday I was playing World of Warcraft on my home PC
> > I have a kvm switch so I had WoW running on my main PC
> > while I was working on the screen for the server.
> > I had just typed emerge -av net-ping then typed yes,
> > it got 3 lines into the emerge and the server froze.
> > Internet access stopped working on the home PC (WoW disconnected),
> > screen froze on tty1, could not change virtual screens,
> > keyboard would not type & no lock keys (caps, scroll, etc.) would work.
> > Ctrl+alt+del wouldn't work, and I couldn't even ssh into it.
>
> Judging from previous reports of similar problems, it sounds like
> hardware.
> Overheating ?  Bad memory ?  Mobo failure somewhere ?
>
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> SUPPORT     ___________//___,  Philip Webb : purslow@chass.utoronto.ca
> ELECTRIC   /] [] [] [] [] []|  Centre for Urban & Community Studies
> TRANSIT    `-O----------O---'  University of Toronto
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>
Thanks for the replies.

It only did it once.  I figured it might possibly be a hardware failure
since I'm using used parts/refurbished parts, but I was wanting to
know if I can check any log files to see exactly why, or enable some
form of extended logging to
pick it up if it happens again.  I use syslog-ng for my system logger.
 I checked /var/log/messages and didn't find anything.
 Here is the last line before it froze from that log file and the first line
immediately after:

Mar 23 20:29:55 laeb named[9770]: lame server resolving '
x.x.x.x.in-addr.arpa' (in '128.202.84.in-addr.arpa'?): x.x.x.x#53
Mar 23 20:38:39 laeb syslog-ng[8723]: syslog-ng version 1.6.9 starting

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