[ubuntu-uk] FW: Server shutting itself down or going into a deep sleep

[Steve]

On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:30:39 -0000, Alexander Birchall  
<tengallonhat at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:

>
> Hi All,
>
> Early last month I emailed the ubuntu-uk mailing list about the Ubuntu  
> server I own that occasionally makes itself unavailable on the network  
> (though it does respond to ping).
>
> To avoid having to physically switch the server off and on, Neil  
> Greenwood on this list suggested I try using the Magic SysRq key on the  
> keyboard.
>
> Well, the server did go down this morning at about midday (after  
> remaining up over the Christmas/New Year holiday).  Around 2pm, I tried  
> the Magic SysRq key and it worked -- the server restarted itself without  
> me having to physically switch it on and off.
>
> Neil suggested that in order to track down the cause of this problem, I  
> should look in the log files, in particular dmesg or messages or  
> syslog.  I have looked in these files but cannot see anything that  
> particularly stands out -- but suspect that I'm probably missing  
> something.  If I posted these files to this list, I wonder would anyone  
> be able to give them a quick scan to see if there's anything obvious?   
> Or is there something in these log files that should not be made public?
>
> Happy New Year!
>
> Alex
>  		 	   		
Don’t know if there’s anything that shouldn’t be seen in public but normal  
practice is to put things like logs on pastebin as they tend to make for  
rather large mails.

http://pastebin.com/

-- 
Steve