Subject: Re: Finally, success (WAS Re: Mandrake install troubles with DAC960 RAID controller...)
From: Justin Dieters (enderak@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Jan 07 2002 - 22:39:43 AKST
My guess is possibly something with the power saving settings in your
bios. I was getting something similar on my server which was running
RedHat where every couple days my whole server would stop responding, so
I had to go to my server (which is also in my closet - hehe) and login
and restart all my network stuff.
I simultaneously switched it over to SuSE 7.3 and turned off all the
power saving features, paying special attention to the options allowing
the computer to mess around with ISA/PCI cards (i.e. my nic card) to
save power. Since then it's been running 36 days straight with no
problem at all. Although I can not be sure whether it was the switch to
SuSE or the fiddling with the BIOS setting which fixed it all, but I
have a feeling the BIOS settings were the key.
Regards,
Justin
www.enderakonline.com
Joshua J.Kugler wrote:
>civileme, et al -
>
>This update is late, the server was up and running last Thursday night (1/3).
>
>So, I was finally able to get through the install by using the second disk,
>which booted with a 2.2.x kernel. This kernel was able to correctly
>initialize the DAC960. During the install, I was able to select the 2.4.x
>kernel, and it didn't complain, and set up lilo correctly. I rebooted,
>compiled 2.4.17, and away we went. Thanks for the tips!
>
>Now, for the complaints, suggestions. :)
>
>I realize strcmp("install", "upgrade") != 0, but it would be nice if the
>install routine would look for existing configuration info. I was prepared,
>so I had written down pertinant info, but it would be nice if install looked
>for an existing /etc, and gleaned partition information, IP addresses, DNS
>servers, etc. It would make the install go that much more smoothly.
>
>I noticed during package selection that aspell would not install without the
>GB (Great Britain) dictionaries (depended on them), even if US dictionaries
>were selected. Why?
>
>What is the difference between bash and bash1? The importance on bash1 says
>"maybe." Why two? It just seems a bit confusing to users, as there is
>nothing in the description to differentiate them.
>
>kdeutils depends on efax? Really? Why can't I install kdeutils without
>installing efax? This is a server, after all.
>
>There still needs to be some tweaking done on the startup configuration in
>the install program. I'm sorry, I didn't write everything down, but I know
>there were several services I selected to start at boot that didn't get
>included in /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/. I had to symlink them manually.
>
>Another problem: Today, I discovered my server was not responding at all.
>No ping, no ssh, nothing. Went to the server closet and was going to login,
>but there was nothing on the console. Keyboard wouldn't respond. Num lock
>wouldn't toggle, etc. Ctrl-Alt-Del wouldn't work. Had to hit reset on the
>box (not something I like to do on a Linux box, much less a server). When it
>came up, I looked through all the logs, and nothing looked amiss (other than
>no entries after 12:40AM today). Does this ring a bell, or do I need to
>start trouble shooting on my own? After bringing the server back up,
>fsck'ing the partitions, and restarting everything, it was fine. We'll see
>if it happens again.
>
>Thanks again for all your help. It is much appreciated.
>
>j----- k-----
>
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