Server keeps locking up

gohtar345 · Jun 3, 2009, 7:35 PM

Recently, about a week or two ago, my pfsense server starting going down at least once every 24 hours. I was running version 1.2. A few days ago I updated it to 1.2.2 and now I am lucky if the server stays running for 12 hours.

I have plugged a monitor and keyboard in to the system and waited for another crash, when it crashed again I went to the keyboard and even the shell menu is non-responsive.

I am not sure where to start on troubleshooting this one, I am leaning towards hardware issue, since it just popped up and happens on 2 versions of the OS. Are there any logs I can look at through SSH? I have tried to view the system log in the web portal it only goes back to when I reboot to make the server work again.

My server is running on a supermicro mobo, dual P3 667 mhz cpus, 1 gig ram, 20 gig SCSI hdd, one builtin NIC and one added NIC, i don't recall specifics about the NICs right now, I am at work and the server has crashed again.

Thanks

Guest · Jun 3, 2009, 8:05 PM

This is absolutely hardware related.

gohtar345 · Jun 4, 2009, 6:40 PM

I checked the ram with Memtest, and ran a data verifier on the HDDs. Is there anyway to narrow down what the issue might be. I looked at the NICs when the server was frozen, they were still blinking.

Thanks

Cry Havok · Jun 4, 2009, 9:45 PM

In order I'd look at:

PSU
Cooling (CPU and case)
Motherboard
CPU