Newly installed 2 CPU Xeon 5130 hangs
James Wilkinson
fedora at aprilcottage.co.uk
Wed Oct 18 12:03:54 UTC 2006
Peter Møller Neergaard wrote:
> Over the weekend, we installed a new server based on two Xeon 5130
> processors. We installed Fedora Core 5 and updated to the latest
> versions on the package.
Good.
> Since installing the server, we've two times experienced that the server
> completely hang: all processes became unresponsive and there was no longer
> generated any log information. In both cases we had to hard reboot the
> machine. The first time after 3 hours, the second time after 30 minutes.
The chances are that you've either got a hardware problem or a hardware
incompatibility.
Have you run memtest86 on these machines? (Unfortunately, this will
require quite a lot of downtime).
Are these servers running X Windows (GNOME, KDE, or something else)? If
so, can you try booting into run-level 3? Either the hangs will go away
(in which case, Look Hard at the graphics hardware), or you might get
some debugging information on the screen.
See http://www.fedorafaq.org/basics/#runlevel for details.
Have you loaded any drivers that weren't provided by Fedora?
Have you checked that the server isn't getting too hot?
Hope this helps,
James.
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