From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 15 13:51:03 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5810B16A494 for ; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 13:51:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from betty.computinginnovations.com (dsl081-142-072.chi1.dsl.speakeasy.net [64.81.142.72]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F1BC43D72 for ; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 13:50:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from p17.computinginnovations.com (dhcp-10-20-30-100.computinginnovations.com [10.20.30.100]) (authenticated bits=0) by betty.computinginnovations.com (8.13.6/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k5FDoVmW008738; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 08:50:32 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <6.0.0.22.2.20060615084753.026d5b88@mail.computinginnovations.com> X-Sender: derek@mail.computinginnovations.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.0.0.22 Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 08:50:21 -0500 To: George Donnelly, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Derek Ragona In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-From: derek@computinginnovations.com X-Spam-Status: No Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: Re: how to debug a lock-up? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 13:51:03 -0000 First you should cvsup and rebuild everything to the latest release versions so all security fixes are loaded. With everything rebuilt, let it run and see if it still locks up. Did you change any hardware recently? -Derek At 07:17 AM 6/15/2006, George Donnelly wrote: >hi > >two nights in a row now at different times one of my servers has locked >up at different times (6:00AM, 3:40AM). No access is available even to >keyboard, the machine does not ping. nothing unusual or special shows up >in messages or dmesg. i have to hard-boot it. >where do i start in debugging this problem? > >thanks! > >-- >george donnelly ~ High Speed Rails inc. ~ highspeedrails.com >Managed Open-Source Hosting ~ Plone Hosting ~ Full Support >Y/AIM: highspeedrails ~ 1-800-969-1452 ~ 1-206-774-8566 > > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >-- >This message has been scanned for viruses and >dangerous content by MailScanner, and is >believed to be clean. >MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support.