Where's the culprit?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 11:22:52AM -0400, Peter King wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 09:39:02AM -0400, Neil Watson wrote:
> 
> > Is the time in the logs set to GMT?  My Athlon Opteron also froze
> > yesterday.  I don't think it's ever happened before.  It happened at
> > 1245 EDT. I am not using syslog-ng.
> > 
> > Any freeze is often related to faulty hardware.  You could try running
> > another kernel if you suspect it.
> 
> My logs are in local time, so it must be a coincidence. Quite the coincidence,
> though.
> 
> I have made some hardware changes recently: (a) adding memory, (b) putting in
> a gigabit NIC. Both are suspect. The first memory sticks I bought, from Canada
> Computers, were bad -- running memtest overnight gave something like 71000 errors.
> The next sticks passed memtest, though. I had trouble getting the ethernet card
> configured, because I hadn't noticed that udev decided to rename it eth4 (why?),
> but that's my fault. There are reports of lockups/freezes with the e1000 driver.
> But there seem to be such reports with most gigabit NICs, apart from those made
> by Intel, which were not in stock at three stores I checked.

Because of /etc/udev/rules.d/something persistent network.

> I compiled a new kernel (3.0.4) with the e1000 driver compiled in, and ran through
> the syslog-ng configuration along with logrotate. Now I'm waiting to see what will
> happen. The past two times took about, ohhh, 18 hours from boot, so we'll come
> around to that this afternoon. If it goes bad, then I run memtest again, and if
> that passes I switch out the ethernet card.
> 
> If it doesn't go bad I'll find some other hardware to play with instead  ;-)

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Len Sorensen
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