Mysterious RHEL 4 crash

[m.roth2006 at rcn.com]

>Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 10:13:04 -0700
>From: "Jason Taylor" <jtaylor at 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
>
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>>Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:47:33 -0700
>>From: "Jason Taylor" <jtaylor at 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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