Re: [Hampshire] Help diagnosing a kernal panic

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Author: David Ramsden
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Help diagnosing a kernal panic

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Brian Chivers wrote:
> Three times in the last three weeks our main Samba server has tripped
> over giving the information below in /var/log/messages
>

[snip]
>
> Would you say that it's the smbd process on line 15 that's causing the
> system to trip over ??
>
> The system has been running fine for almost 3 years now so I'm not sure
> why it has suddenly started doing this, I've not installed any new
> software or run any updates since it was installed, I know this is bad
> but it's a Fedora Core 3 box and with the closure of the fedora legecy
> project it's not that simple to do updates.
>

[snip]

If nothing has been updated then you're probably looking at a hardware
problem. First thing that springs to mind is bad memory.

I had a DNS server that did this. It was running fine for years and then
out of the blue it fell over with a kernel panic and did this a few
times over the course of a few days. Nothing had been updated or changed.

Can you afford any downtime over night or at the weekend to run
memtest86 on the server?

Regards,
David.
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