[NTLUG:Discuss] Periodic crashes on Redhat 8.0

[Fred James]

I too think I would look into a power management problem - probably 
first.  Get into your box's set up and see about disabling it.  If not 
there, does RH 8 have a power management "feature"? - oh, I do hope not 
(personal opinion expressed there).

Kelledin wrote:

>On Monday 02 December 2002 09:18 pm, Minh Duong wrote:
>
>> Very recently one of my linux boxes running Redhat
>>8.0 locks up every day.  It still has power because I
>>can open and close the CD ROM but it is not responsive
>>to everything else and all the power lights are off.
>>
>
>Hmmm...all the power lights are off when it locks up?  That 
>sounds to me like some power management problem there.  These 
>are actually fairly common, whatever O/S you run.
>
>>My next course of action is to connect it to a
>>keyboard and monitor to see if the machines displays
>>any errors before crashing.  What logs can I check to
>>see what is happening?  Thanks.
>>
>
>On most distros, /var/log/messages is the standard catch-all 
>bucket for syslog messages.  Kernel log messages (which is 
>probably what you want) end up going there too; 
>/var/log/kern.log often exists also, to hold nothing but 
>kernel-generated log messages.
>

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