Topic: Freezed server every morning...

[Philippe MARTY]

Hello,
I don't understand what's going on on my 7.2 server
Everything was working perfectly from several monthes, until I made the last yum update (via ssh connection) on the 14th of novembre as asked by the system :

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=== yum reports available updates:
===

pcre.i386                                4.5-4.el4_5.4          smeupdates     
perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib.i386              2.006-1.el4.rf         smeupdates     
perl-Compress-Zlib.noarch                2.007-1.el4.rf         smeupdates     
perl-Crypt-OpenSSL-Bignum.i386           0.04-1.el4.rf          smeupdates     
perl-Data-UUID.i386                      1.148-1.el4.rf         smeupdates     
perl-Digest-SHA.i386                     5.45-1.el4.rf          smeupdates     
perl-Error.noarch                        0.17009-1.el4.rf       smeupdates     
perl-HTML-Parser.i386                    3.56-1.el4.rf          smeupdates     
perl-IO-Compress-Base.noarch             2.006-1.el4.rf         smeupdates     
perl-IO-Compress-Zlib.noarch             2.006-1.el4.rf         smeupdates   

Now every morning my server is freezed. Except from ping, I cannot reach my server, neither by pop, nor by http, even not by ssh.
I'm forced to reboot it with the on/off button...

It's ok then, but only for one day. On the next morning I have to reboot it again...
In fact I'm a linux newbie and I don't know where to search for an answer, what are the good logs and where can I find them ?
Does anybody had the same problem and solved it, or does someone know if there is a tutorial for finding such errors ?
Many thanks !

[mmccarn]

I'd suggest starting with:

1) Examine /var/log/messages after rebooting to see what happened.

2) Look at /etc/cron.d, /etc/cron.daily and crontab -e to see what's scheduled to happen each night.

3) Verify you have enough disk space with df -k

Good luck!

[cactus]

I'd suggest starting with:

1) Examine /var/log/messages after rebooting to see what happened.

2) Look at /etc/cron.d, /etc/cron.daily and crontab -e to see what's scheduled to happen each night.

3) Verify you have enough disk space with df -k

Good luck!

If you did not install version 7.2 from CD verify that you have all neccesarry repositories enabled and that you did all actions from the update instructions found in the wiki: http://wiki.contribs.org/Updating_to_SME_7.2