Subj : Re: ridiculous unstability with fedora 3......help me please !
To   : comp.os.linux
From : Mihai Osian
Date : Sun Feb 27 2005 07:39 pm

ben wrote:
> There is no syslog, and I'm not sure what to look out for. There isn't
> really any errors that stand out.
> 

   Do you mean you have typed "less /var/log/syslog" in the console and 
you got the error "No such file or directory" ?...
   If so, please try the following:

dmesg > out.txt
ps ax >> out.txt
ifconfig >> out.txt
mount >> out.txt
less /etc/fstab >> out.txt

  And post the file out.txt here. If everything freezes so badly, the 
most likely problems are bad hardware (as I said), or inter-process 
communication problems, for example no "/tmp" directory, loopback 
network interface down or something similar. I imagine a corrupted 
filesystem could also have this effect. If you use NFS, a malfunctioning 
NFS server can freeze up your station.
   The file mounting problems you mentioned should be the starting point 
for your search. If the graphical system doesn't allow you to check 
what's wrong, switch to a text-mode console - press Ctrl-Alt-F1 (or 
F2..F6) and run the commands from there. To switch back to X-windows, 
press Ctrl-Alt-F7. It surprises me that you know how to configure NAT 
and DNS, but you don't know how to run a proper diagnostic.

Mihai

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