Re: Debian Hangs

[John Summerfield <debian@ComputerDatasafe.com.au>]

Vijaya S wrote:

> Hi all ,
> A machine with Debian on it hangs suddenly for no reason.
> Below are the snapshots of the file /var/log/syslog
> I am not able to figure whats the reason.
> The eth0 eepro100 goes down and after rebooting its fine.
> But i doubted the line LOWMEM
> Is that the reason or any other?
> any ideas or suggestins?
>
>
> 718): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" to a
> read-only config source at position 2
> Jul 14 21:38:01 sun /USR/SBIN/CRON[782]: (mail) CMD (  if [ -x
> /usr/lib/exim/exim3 -a -f /etc/exim/exim.conf ]; then
> /usr/lib/exim/exim3 -q ; fi)
> Jul 14 21:40:08 sun sz[789]: [ashok] hjtag/ZMODEM: got ZSKIP
> Jul 14 21:40:08 sun sz[789]: [ashok] hjtag/ZMODEM: 21304 Bytes, 908 BPS
> Jul 14 21:40:13 sun sz[789]: [ashok] mod_PJTAGS.o/ZMODEM: got ZSKIP
> Jul 14 21:40:13 sun sz[789]: [ashok] mod_PJTAGS.o/ZMODEM: 4428 Bytes,
> 906 BPS
> Jul 14 22:07:10 sun syslogd 1.4.1#10: restart.
> Jul 14 22:07:10 sun kernel: klogd 1.4.1#10, log source = /proc/kmsg
> started.
> Cannot find map file.
> Jul 14 22:07:10 sun kernel: Loaded 245 symbols from 5 modules.
> Jul 14 22:07:10 sun kernel: Linux version 2.4.22 (root@sun) (gcc version
> 3.3.2 (Debian)) #2 SMP Wed Dec 10 18:23:26 IST 2003
> Jul 14 22:07:10 sun kernel: BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
> Jul 14 22:07:10 sun kernel:  BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 -
> 000000000009fc00 (usable)
> Jul 14 22:07:10 sun kernel:  BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 -
> 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
> Jul 14 22:07:10 sun kernel:  BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 -
> 0000000000100000 (reserved)
> Jul 14 22:07:10 sun kernel:  BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 -
> 000000000fef0000 (usable)
> Jul 14 22:07:10 sun kernel:  BIOS-e820: 000000000fef0000 -
> 000000000fef3000 (ACPI NVS)
> Jul 14 22:07:10 sun kernel:  BIOS-e820: 000000000fef3000 -
> 000000000ff00000 (ACPI data)
> Jul 14 22:07:10 sun kernel:  BIOS-e820: 00000000ffb00000 -
> 0000000100000000 (reserved)
> Jul 14 22:07:10 sun kernel: 254MB LOWMEM available.
> Jul 14 22:07:10 sun kernel: On node 0 totalpages: 65264
> Jul 14 22:07:10 sun kernel: zone(0): 4096 pages.
> Jul 14 22:07:10 sun kernel: zone(1): 61168 pages.
>
>  
In some detail, what hardware? I'm guessing Sun (and not from the host 
name).

You might need to run a serial cable to another box and run syslog's o/p 
through it (if you can) and certainly the kernel messages: you can get 
the kernel messages out like so:
kernel=/boot/vmlinuz console=ttyS0,19200

> Regards,
> Vijaya
>
>
>  


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Cheers
John

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