[Avcheck] Total crash when running postfix flush

Ralf Hildebrandt Ralf.Hildebrandt@charite.de
Thu, 10 Apr 2003 19:58:44 +0200


* Tarjei Huse <tarjei@nu.no>:

> However, the last few weeks, I've experienced a lot of trouble. The
> server has repetedly crashed hard without any entries in the log or
> anywere else telling me why. As you might understand, I've scratched
> my head and thought of verious hardwareproblems that might be the
> reason for this. 

Memory gone bad?

> However, today I've seen the machine crash consistently when I run
> the postfix flush command. As you might understand, I'm happy that I
> might see the end of this. However, it is quite hard to find the bug
> in this. So what I am asking from you is some tips that might help me
> get this debugged so I might solve the problem.

Run memtest86 first. Also try a full fsck.

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