RE: Mysterious RHEL 4 crash

You can download it as an RPM, or standalone or you can use the Clonezilla livecd I think it has it onboard.

http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/memtest86/http://www.memtest86.com/http://clonezilla.sourceforge.net/

the only bad thing about this is that it will take the server offline for hours. Something I have not been able to do with my server.

-----Original Message-----
From: redhat-list-bounces@redhat.com
[mailto:redhat-list-bounces@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Grazyna Rymaszewska Sent: Friday, August 31, 2007 8:07 AM
To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list Subject: Re: Mysterious RHEL 4 crash

Could you explain what is 'memtest86', please!!! I have the same trouble: rebooting server with nothing in message log. And I don't know how to find 'memtest86' in my RedHat4. Graza

2007/8/30, m.roth2006@rcn.com <m.roth2006@rcn.com>:
> >Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 10:13:04 -0700
> >From: "Jason Taylor" <jtaylor@uipacific.com>
> >
> >I did a hardware reset. What is the 3 finger kill?
>
> You've never heard of <crtl><alt><delete> as the three-finger kill?
>
> At any rate, it sounds to me as though you have a hardware problem
*sigh*. Since you rebooted, and it did the std. fsck (I would hope), then you might try taking the system down, and running memtest86.
>
> Let me note that I spent months resolving my wife's system, which had
the same thing - it would freeze, mostly with a screensaver on, but sometimes while using it. Turned out to be the video card.
>
> mark
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
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m.roth2006@rcn.com
> >Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 10:07 AM
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> >Subject: Re: Mysterious RHEL 4 crash
> >
> >>Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:47:33 -0700
> >>From: "Jason Taylor" <jtaylor@uipacific.com>
> >>
> >>My server decided to crash about 10pm last night. It just locked
up.
> >I
> >>came in this morning and the console was unresponsive, no virtual
> >>terminal, nothing. /var/log/messages doesn't show anything either.
> >>Admittedly I am pretty new to linux, and I don't know what other
logs I
> >>can check.
> ><snip>
> >How did you restart it - the three-finger kill, or did you need to do
a
> >hardware reset?
> >
> > mark
> >
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