tracking crashes in the night

[tony]

Hi,

Yesterday FC4 test 2 crashed at between 05:01:01 and the next cron
hourly

this morning I was testing VDR and it was recording Lawn Mower Man when
FC4 crashed at around 2 a.m. (I have 400 Mb of recording)

Looking at the logs there is no clue of what process is causing this.
Can someone tell me what to do to find the cause please?

Cheers

Tony

[nodata]

On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 17:14 +0200, tony wrote:
>  Hi,
>  
>  Yesterday FC4 test 2 crashed at between 05:01:01 and the next cron
>  hourly
>  
>  this morning I was testing VDR and it was recording Lawn Mower Man when
>  FC4 crashed at around 2 a.m. (I have 400 Mb of recording)
>  
>  Looking at the logs there is no clue of what process is causing this.
>  Can someone tell me what to do to find the cause please?
>  
>  Cheers
>  
>  Tony
>   
Got any binary modules, or running x86_64?

[tony]

Le jeudi 28 avril 2005 à 17:54 +0200, nodata a écrit :

>  Got any binary modules, or running x86_64? 
No binary modules to my knowledge (I have VMware since this morning) and
running i686 on VIA EPIA M10000 N

Cheers

Tony

[nodata]

On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 18:10 +0200, tony wrote:
>  Le jeudi 28 avril 2005 à 17:54 +0200, nodata a écrit :
>  
>  > Got any binary modules, or running x86_64?
>  
>  No binary modules to my knowledge (I have VMware since this morning) and
>  running i686 on VIA EPIA M10000 N
>  
>  Cheers
>  
>  Tony
>   
There go the most likely causes :)
I had the same problem on a machine with an nvidia card and the binary
module for it. I'd get crashes with no logged information.

You said you've checked your logs - I'd like to know how to find out the
cause too..

[Robin Green]

On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 18:20:12 +0200, nodata wrote:
>  There go the most likely causes :)
>  I had the same problem on a machine with an nvidia card and the binary
>  module for it. I'd get crashes with no logged information.
>  
>  You said you've checked your logs - I'd like to know how to find out the
>  cause too.. 
Get a null modem cable and hook up another computer as a serial console.
That's what I'm going to do - I'll report back in a few days if I find
anything useful.
-- 
Robin

[tony]

Le jeudi 28 avril 2005 à 18:13 +0100, Robin Green a écrit :
>  On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 18:20:12 +0200, nodata wrote:
>  > There go the most likely causes :)
>  > I had the same problem on a machine with an nvidia card and the binary
>  > module for it. I'd get crashes with no logged information.
>  > 
>  > You said you've checked your logs - I'd like to know how to find out the
>  > cause too.. 
OK I left the machine running with no open applications and it survived
_BUT_ memory use is very high (was 96% when I got to the machine - has
gone down to 94% now).

I am guessing that there is a leak in there somewhere and leaving
Evolution and spamassassin running all night was just choking the
machine to death.

There is some USB weirdness still - capslock was on but I had to turn it
off then back on to get numeric keypad to work just now.

Cheers

Tony