RedHat Server hangs... how to troubleshoot.

[Lunt, Nick]

Hi GnanaShekar,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: unix syzadmin [mailto:unixsyzadmin at gmail.com]

> We have installed "Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 
> (Nahant Update 2)"
> on HP rx4640.
> The server hangs every day.  The server does not respond to 
> telnet and I
> don't get the diplay at the console.
> 
> Request you to suggest me on how to root cause the issue.
> 
> Thanks & Regards,
> -GnanaShekar-
> -- 

We've got a couple of RX4640's too. I updated them both to RHAS Update 2 and that stopped the X server from working. I couldn't be bothered to fix it so I changed the runlevel to 3. However, we have some DL servers to that updating caused the X server to fail, and on them I reverted back to the X11 rpms off the install CD.

By default the server won't respond to telnet unless telnet-server is installed. 

What does it do that indicates the server has hung ? I've had a gander at the dmesg output you sent but there's nothing amiss that I can see.

Nick .


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