My Dell PowerEdge T105 running Centos-5.2 has started crashing fairly often (3 times in the last 2 hours). The message on the screen tells me to look at the System Event Log. Is this just /var/log/messages ? I didn't see anything helpful there. As far as I could see, the last messages before the crash were about samba, which is running on the machine. Has anyone had such problems with Samba? I've stopped the smb service to see if this improves matters. I'm running a standard updated system. I looked at smartctl but this did not suggest that there was anything wrong with the 2 SATA disks. Incidentally, wouldn't it be a good idea for /var/log/messages* to start a new file when booting?
> The message on the screen tells me to look at the System Event Log.What application is doing that? System Event Log sounds like Windows terminology.> Incidentally, wouldn't it be a good idea for /var/log/messages* > to start a new file when booting?that's what /var/log/dmesg is for. messages files are typically rolled over daily or when they hit a certain size. -- Spiro Harvey Knossos Networks Ltd 021-295-1923 www.knossos.net.nz -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090209/61c2c907/attachment.sig>
Timothy Murphy wrote:> My Dell PowerEdge T105 running Centos-5.2 > has started crashing fairly often (3 times in the last 2 hours). > The message on the screen tells me to look at the System Event Log. > Is this just /var/log/messages ?The only System Event Log I know of is part of the BIOS. If you enter your BIOS setup you might find something recorded, or you can try running "dmidecode -t system" (as root) and see if anything meaningful shows up. There's a manpage for dmidecode, but I doubt you'll find much of interest there. -- Bob Nichols "NOSPAM" is really part of my email address. Do NOT delete it.
> -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces at centos.org > [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Timothy Murphy > Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2009 7:47 PM > To: centos at centos.org > Subject: [CentOS] What is the System Event Log? > > > My Dell PowerEdge T105 running Centos-5.2 > has started crashing fairly often (3 times in the last 2 hours). > The message on the screen tells me to look at the System Event Log. > Is this just /var/log/messages ?If you have OMSA installed you can check out those logs. Ipmi and Dmidecode as mentioned and check out linux.dell.com Wiki for support and diagnostic tools. Depending on what you have installed on that particular server there can be many logs to check out under /var/log/*> I didn't see anything helpful there. > As far as I could see, the last messages before the crash > were about samba, which is running on the machine. > Has anyone had such problems with Samba? > I've stopped the smb service to see if this improves matters.Post the Samba Messages and the log. No problems with samba that I know of unless your trying to run version 4.> I'm running a standard updated system. > I looked at smartctl but this did not suggest > that there was anything wrong with the 2 SATA disks. > > Incidentally, wouldn't it be a good idea for /var/log/messages* > to start a new file when booting?When it gets to a certain size limit it will rollover to a new log. Lastly you can send a mail to "linux-poweredge at dell.com" JohnStanley
On Monday 09 February 2009, Timothy Murphy wrote:> My Dell PowerEdge T105 running Centos-5.2 > has started crashing fairly often (3 times in the last 2 hours). > The message on the screen tells me to look at the System Event Log. > Is this just /var/log/messages ?No, the SEL is maintained on the BMC/IPMI-controller. In Linux you can (assuming you have /etc/init.d/ipmi running) view it with: ipmitool sel list You will need OpenIPMI and OpenIPMI-tools (from base) for the above to work. /Peter> I didn't see anything helpful there. > As far as I could see, the last messages before the crash > were about samba, which is running on the machine. > Has anyone had such problems with Samba? > I've stopped the smb service to see if this improves matters. > > I'm running a standard updated system. > I looked at smartctl but this did not suggest > that there was anything wrong with the 2 SATA disks. > > Incidentally, wouldn't it be a good idea for /var/log/messages* > to start a new file when booting?-------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090209/964adb6d/attachment.sig>
Peter Kjellstrom wrote:>> My Dell PowerEdge T105 running Centos-5.2 >> has started crashing fairly often (3 times in the last 2 hours). >> The message on the screen tells me to look at the System Event Log. >> Is this just /var/log/messages ? > > No, the SEL is maintained on the BMC/IPMI-controller. In Linux you can > (assuming you have /etc/init.d/ipmi running) view it with: > ipmitool sel list > > You will need OpenIPMI and OpenIPMI-tools (from base) for the above to > work.Thanks for the info. As I mentioned in another posting, I found that I could read the System Event Log after pressing F2 (Enter Setup) on boot. I tried the command above, but it did not work. I found I already had OpenIPMI (which I have never heard of) installed, and I yum-installed OpenIPMI-tools . But when I ran the command I got: ------------------------------------------------- [tim at helen ~]$ sudo service ipmi restart Stopping all ipmi drivers: [ OK ] Starting ipmi drivers: [FAILED] [tim at helen ~]$ sudo ipmitool sel list Could not open device at /dev/ipmi0 or /dev/ipmi/0 or /dev/ipmidev/0: No such file or directory Get SEL Info command failed -------------------------------------------------