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From: Joe Biniskiewicz <joeb@joeb.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Server locks up
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 10:47:55 -0700
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Are you by chance using an NE-2000 clone ethernet card?  If so, try a
different card, anything else.  I had a very similar problem and that
was the cause.

Steve Suhre wrote:
> 
> I'm running BSD on a network machine that periodically locks up.
> This particular server will just hang, it no longer responds to
> inetd requests, ping, or keyboard input including a warm boot
> (cntrl, alt, del). Powering this machine down and back up results
> in a nominal boot up, and it seems to run fine until it locks up
> again in a week or 2. There are no signs of any distress in any of
> the system log files, the last record in the log file is usually just
> a lame delegation or something similar. The lock up seems to happen
> randomly, and has occurred during low traffic times (Sun evening)
> as well as high (midday midweek).
> 
> It seems like a hardware problem, it's a new machine, just a few
> months old. The system is not giving me any clues... Any sugestions
> or related experience will be appreciated.
> 
> Hardware configuration:
> 
> Mother board is Free Tech 586VX
> CPU 686/166 Cyrix P166
> Bus Logic BT946C SCSI controller
> Trident video Card VGATD 9680 PCI 1Mb DRAM W/MPEG
> 64 Mb RAM - EDO SIMM's
> 
> --
> Steve Suhre
> steve@SmallWeb.com