Topic: SME-Server 5.6 crashes 1-3 min idle

[Morten U. Hansen]

Hi Phorum,

I have an SME-Server 5.6 up and running. This machine host a couple of test websites. 2 of these host Gallery (PHP) albums.

Now these have been running for 1½ day without problems. This morning the server went cold on me. I did a cold boot (even though I hate doing so). After a few minutes - down again. This has happened to me now 5 times.

After one crash I could see a lot of kernel messages on the screen. I don't know what they mean, but I took a dig. photo of the screen.

I have found out that as long there is activity on the server it will stay up! Therefor I started the machine and immediate started a slideshow from the Gallery application. Now after 1 h I still have activity - phew!

But what went wrong? I'm quite new to this, so I don't know which logfiles to consult for probable cause.

Anyone get any ideas? I can send the photo to anyone who would like to take a crack at it.

Thnx in advance

The puzzled Dane

[Brian Read]

Morten,

If you like, send me the photo (brianr at bjsystems.co.uk), no promises
though.

The problem is almost certainly hardware!

cheers

Brian

[Jeroen]

Did you disable all power saving options in the bios?

[Morten U. Hansen]

Yes,

Brian Read suggested it was hardware that wasn't tightly fixed,
or the CPU overheating. I am sure CPU is not OH, so I checked for loose
objects in the RAM-, IDE- and ISA-bays. No apparent loose ends.

Puzzling though it has been running stable now since the incidents 26 h ago.
So I just hope that this was a "one off". BIOS APM features I think have
been disabled (something should have happened before if not).

Thanks for your tip!

BR

Morten U. Hansen
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