[PLUG] Troublesome linux box

Sean Whitney sean.whitney at gmail.com
Thu Oct 6 18:13:27 UTC 2005


I wish it would sing lewd drinking songs....  There are a lot of
segmentation faults and then it freezes up.... 


Sean
On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 10:47 -0700, Aaron Burt wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 10:26:59AM -0700, Sean Whitney wrote:
> > I have a tower box that I use as a file server at my home.  It's doing
> > nfs exports to some workstations, as well as some other functions
> > (dns,dhcp,samba,slimp3 server).
> > 
> > It has been very unstable the last 6 months.
> 
> Besides printing messages, what else does it do?  Reboot?  Freeze?
> Sing lewd drinking songs?
> 
> > The only clue I have is some messages from dmesg.  If anyone has any
> > insight into some troubleshooting steps I'm really looking for some
> > answers.  Please see the dmesg below....
> 
> Those messages indicate that it could be any number of things wrong
> with CPU, RAM, motherboard or add-in cards, but the most common things
> are gonna be:
>  - Overheating due to a bad fan (CPU fan especially)
>  - Bad RAM
>  - Marginal power supply
> 
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