[OpenIndiana-discuss] OI Crash

[David Scharbach]

I will make a memtest ISO ASAP.  /var/adm/messages shows nothing.  /var/crash does not exist on my system.

Will see what memtest says.

Cheers,

Dave

On 2013-01-15, at 9:10 PM, Ian Collins <ian at ianshome.com> wrote:

> David Scharbach wrote:
>> I have an OI installation that seems to crash about every 20 days.  Locks up completely and needs a hard reset.  Not very much fun.
>> 
>> Question I have is where would I start to look to see why?  I first thought it may be due to scrubbing load on the LSI controller but that is not the case.  It crashed today hours after a curb was successful at 2AM.
>> 
>> I am a new OI user and would really appreciate a bit of help on this one.  Basically looking for a crash dump of some sort and the locations that I have looked at don't really help.
>> 
>> System is
>> 
>> i3 CPU
>> 32GB Ram
>> LSI SAS2008
>> Intel SAS expander
>> 13 SATA 7200RPM drives
>> Asus MB
> 
> Is there any evidence of a crash in the logs?
> 
> Look in /var/adm/messages for any clues and under /var/crash/<hostname> for any dumps.
> 
> I'm not sure if there is a version of Solaris CAT (Crash Analysis Tool) that works with OI.  If there is and you have a dump that's the best place to look.
> 
> If there isn't any evidence of a crash, there's a fair chance you have a hardware problem.  I'm guessing that with an i3 motherboard you won't have ECC memory, so running memtest86 for a while would be a good start.
> 
> -- 
> Ian.
> 
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