Re: Server Freezes

[Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com>]

On Jan 5, 2010, at 9:47 PM, Roman Gelfand wrote:

> I didn't see any message that was out of the ordinary.   I am running
> another with similar configuration except it runs different
> applicaiton.  That machine never goes down.
>
> On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 3:30 AM, Sebastian Weisgerber
> <sebastian.weisgerber@dystopianfuture.de> wrote:
> > Have a look at ~/.VirtualBox/Machines/<Machine Name>/Logs.
> > I'm using Virtualbox quite often and every time it crashed, it  
> > wasn't the host os' fault.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tuesday 05 January 2010 05:56:17 Roman Gelfand wrote:
> > > I am running Lenny patched up.  On this machine I am running sun
> > > virtualbox virtual machine.  The guest os of this machine is patched
> > > up lenny.  On the guest os I am running postfix and various anti  
> > > spam
> > > servers.  Several times now, I find that after several days of
> > > operation, the virtual machine freezes, I can not ssh to it.  I  
> > > looked
> > > at the /var/log/syslog, no trace of any issues.  How can I determine
> > > what caused it to freeze?
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance


Have you checked the logs on the host machine?  It could be a hardware  
problem on the host...

Just a thought.

Rick