FC2 locking up randomly

[Teo Fonrouge]

Tim Ballantine wrote:
> This has only just started happening. I have had the server (which is 
> currently being co-lo'ed) running for 6-7 months and it now randomly 
> freezes completely. Last week I updated to the 2.6.9-1.3 fc2 kernel and 
> about 4 days after that it started freezing. I thought there must be a 
> connection, so I then upgraded to 2.6.9-1.6 kernel, still happening. I 
> set grub to boot from one of the older kernels I had been running for 
> months on and it's still doing it.
> 
> Twice today now. All fans were working and temperatures were the same as 
> before. Had top open, memory usage stayed roughly the same, no new 
> processes, cpu stayed at about 35%
> 
> I'm waiting for redbus to reboot it then I can run memtest but I think 
> that will come back ok.
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> Cheers,
> Tim
> 
> 

Hello Tim,

It is pretty sure a hardware malfunction.

I have several FC2 & FC3 x86 based boxes up & running well, and the only 
events that make it stop is due to RAM/MB/CPU/Coolers...etc not working 
ok. Last kernels, updated automatically with yum.

Maybe you want to check RAM with memtest.


best regards

Teo Fonrouge