[Novalug] need help: server freezing / locking up

[Richard Ertel]

@Gerald: first off, thanks for the reply!

it's a beefy PSU, 600 watts. hasn't been a problem before running 5
drives, and these new ones are "low power" but i'll put "swapping PSU
from backup server" on my TO-TRY list.

no, it's 8.04.3 :)
8.04 is a LTS release. i figured the LTS would be good to stick with,
but i do plan to upgrade it to 9.10 pretty soon.

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 19:53, Gerald.K.Williams at verizon.net
<gkwms at gwyn.tux.org> wrote:
> let me preface this with I know NOTHING!
>
> but will throw some things out:
>
> if they are new hard drives added to an existing
> power supply wonder if the total draw is too high...
>
> also
> 8.04.3?
> you mean 9.04.3?
>
>
> hth
>
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 07:44:02PM -0400, Richard Ertel wrote:
>> *sigh*
>>
>> ok, so my fileserver is locking up. seems to always happen, anywhere
>> from 1 minute to 4 hours after booting.  if i disconnect all four SATA
>> hard drives (all for storage) and just have the boot drive (PATA)
>> connected, it seems to stay up indefinitely.
>>
>> i've ran the SATA drives that i thought were problematic through
>> Seagate's SeaTools, and they passed all tests.
>>
>> i've looked through /var/log/messages for entries when the lockup
>> occurred, but nothing looks odd (to me, what do i know?)
>>
>> can anyone tell me where to start troubleshooting to get to the bottom of this?
>>
>> Ubuntu Server 8.04.3, all updates as of this morning.
>>
>> thanks!
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