[GRLUG] Update on rebooting linux server

[John-Thomas Richards]

On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 09:20:20AM -0400, Collin Kidder wrote:
> I believe that I finally found the problem I had been having with
> the server. After striking out with the UPS and power supply guesses
> I took the server offline and then took it all apart. There were
> some areas on the motherboard and power supply board where dust had
> accumulated and previous attempts to blow the machine out with air
> had not been able to get into these areas. Reassembling and powering
> on has given me an uptime of 5.97 days so far. This actually sort of
> makes sense because this server is located in a building where metal
> fabrication takes place so the content of our dust is very likely to
> contain a bit of metal particulate.

So it may have been shorting out rather than overheating?  Wild.
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john-thomas
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