system crashes every 20 minutes

Ray Van Dolson rvandolson at esri.com
Mon Oct 29 23:52:58 UTC 2007


On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 04:48:33PM -0700, Chen, Douglas wrote:
> I have a Dell Precision 470 running Redhat WS release 4 (linux 2.6.9-5 ELsmp)
> that crashes every 20 minutes. It was working fine till recently. I tried to
> reinstall the OS that didn’t help. I think it might be the hardware that cause
> the problem, but can’t figure out which parts is defected and needs to be
> replaced from command “dmesg” output. Can anyone tell me what the problem is
> from the following dmesg message or there are more commands to use to identify
> the defect parts? Your help is greatly appreciated.

Why not try upgrading the system to the latest kernel/errata?

Run 'up2date -u'

Ray




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