I run a nightly backup at 2AM of our Fedora Core 1 server using Mondo. About once every two weeks the system will freeze up. It won’t process email, present web pages, and I can’t log into it using SSH. The console screen is blank. We have to cold start server.

The easiest suggestion is to stop using Mondo, but I like the fast recovery Mondo offers.

So we’re trying to figure out how to diagnose this problem and where to start. Memory, Hard Drive (is new), IDE controller, etc?

Does anyone have any ideas where to start?

Thanks,

--Bill Wesson

This is my script to run Mondo daily at 2AM:

mkdir -p /home/mondo/`date +%A`

mondoarchive -Oi -d /home/mondo/`date +%A` -E "/home/mondo"

Log files don’t provide any clues.

CRON log for Sunday-2AM

Oct 24 01:50:00 payson CROND[24793]: (root) CMD (/usr/local/bin/weblogs)

Oct 24 02:00:00 payson CROND[25052]: (root) CMD (run-parts /etc/cron.daily-2am)

Oct 24 02:00:00 payson CROND[25056]: (root) CMD (nice --adjustment=15 /usr/local/sbin/update_site_summary_cache)

Oct 24 02:00:00 payson CROND[25054]: (root) CMD (/usr/local/bin/weblogs)

Oct 24 02:01:00 payson CROND[25961]: (root) CMD (run-parts /etc/cron.hourly)

Oct 24 02:10:00 payson CROND[7866]: (root) CMD (/usr/local/bin/weblogs)

CRON log for Monday-2AM

Oct 25 01:50:00 payson CROND[29959]: (root) CMD (/usr/local/bin/weblogs)

Oct 25 02:00:00 payson CROND[30059]: (root) CMD (run-parts /etc/cron.daily-2am)

Oct 25 02:00:00 payson CROND[30063]: (root) CMD (nice --adjustment=15 /usr/local/sbin/update_site_summary_cache)

Oct 25 02:00:00 payson CROND[30061]: (root) CMD (/usr/local/bin/weblogs)

Oct 25 02:01:00 payson CROND[30953]: (root) CMD (run-parts /etc/cron.hourly)

Oct 25 07:28:59 payson crond[2982]: (CRON) STARTUP (fork ok)

MESSAGES log for Monday-2AM

Oct 25 01:50:08 payson logger: weblogs: (29959) done.

Oct 25 02:00:00 payson logger: weblogs: (30061) starting.

Oct 25 02:00:01 payson autofs: automount shutdown succeeded

Oct 25 02:00:09 payson logger: weblogs: (30061) done.