server crash

[Ben Luey <lueyb@carleton.edu>]

My linux server crashed and it had to be rebooted. (This was relayed to me
so I don't have teh exact info.

What happened is that the server didn't respond to any network activity --
no pings, etc.
We plugged in a monitor and got tons of messages saying something to the
effect that the server could gets memory address for ethernet card and it
repeated this message with slightly different numbers over and over. We
tried to login to the computer locally but either it was too slow or the
messages just interrupted everything, but it wasn't doable.
Control-alt-delete did nothing, so we pressed the reset button. The logs
look completely normal until Friday night at 10:00pm then they stop until
the reboot on Monday morning. So whatever happened caused logging to stop.
The computer had been up 80 days or so (486 with 12meg ram running web
server and imap/pop plus ip masq on 2.0.35, redhat 5.1. Any ideas?

Thanks,

BEn

Ben Luey
lueyb@carleton.edu
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