[GRLUG] Rebooting linux server

[John-Thomas Richards]

On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 08:28:51AM -0400, Jason Villalta wrote:
> Have you tried a memory test?

That's my bet.  Bad RAM can do strange things like lock-ups and reboots.

> On Jul 3, 2012 8:24 AM, "Collin Kidder" <collink at kkmfg.com> wrote:
> 
> > I have a server running Debian 6.0.5. It likes to reboot at random. I get
> > uptimes which range between about 8 hours and 8 days. There doesn't appear
> > to be much rhyme or reason for this. The server is a ProLiant DL380 G3 and
> > I do have redundant power supplies installed. I've tried looking at the
> > logs but of course anything which happened too close to the time of the
> > reboot seems to have not passed from cache to disk before the sudden reboot
> > so all I see are normal log entries, a gap,  and then messages as processes
> > start up upon reboot. I think there might be reason to suspect some sort of
> > hardware failure but the machine doesn't seem to be indicating to me that
> > anything failed.
> >
> > I'm not exactly a server administration wizard so what should I be looking
> > for to try to figure this out?
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