Mandriva on IBM server locks.

[29021972]

Hi,

I have Mandriva installed on an IBM. Everything works fine, but somehow it locks every night.
When I look in the morning, I only see a black screen. The keyboard is locked as well.

I cannot find any information in logfiles. It looks like the machine just hangs.

When I start the machin it oftens hangs while starting X.
Trying a few times always helps.

Main services installed are only:
Apache
mySQL

Does anyone has a glue on what's hapening?


MCAD(2004)

 

[QatQat]

have you tried to tail /var/log/messages? What about your X log file after a failed startup, I find it strange that you cannot pickup anything in any log.


QatQat

Life is what happens when you are making other plans.

 

[29021972]

... no messages...it looks like nothing happens at all.
The X log doesn't show anything except that the last line:
"SetClientVersion: 0 9"
seems to be missing when booting fails.

Another thing I discovered: the keybpard hangs as well, but I can ping to the machine (from my XP client) and the httpd service works fine too.
When I want to switch off the server using the power switch, it shuts down immediately (usualy this causes linux to kill all processes, in this case power just shuts down)....


MCAD(2004)

 

[Kozusnik]

I had a similar problem. I never really found out what the problem was, but I set /etc/inittab to runlevel 3 (multi-user text) and my problem seemed to be solved. Maybe having X running was the problem...not sure.

I startx after the boot if I need to use it. Honestly, I haven't started X on any of my Linux boxes since they've been running. I run Linux clients and use the guis through ssh.

Mark

 

[29021972]

Well, yesterday I decided to remove Mandriva and install Suse.
It looks like that solved the problem as well..

MCAD(2004)