Mysterious RHEL 4 crash

[m.roth2006 at rcn.com]

>Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 22:56:12 +0200
>From: "Grazyna Rymaszewska" <grazar at gmail.com>  
>
>Wow! Thanks a lot for your help!!!
>Meantime, after several reboot, we have hard disk failure...
>I wonder if it was the cause of out problem. If not... we have
>one disk less and the problem unsolved! ;-|
>G.
>
That's not good, at all. You *do* have this server at *least* on a UPS, right? Have you had any power outages lately?

I ask, because a failing hard drive is not going to cause it to lock up - you'll see a panic. I'm begining to wonder if you had a surge that affected you system.

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