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Questions tagged [server-crashes]

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MCE Error Codes/Pink Screen - Should they be a cause for concern?

So I recently purchased a server grade system along with all server grade peripherals. I'm licensed for ESXi 6 and have all recent patches installed. System has been running around 2 weeks now and all of a sudden I had a complete crash. I've…
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Why does my debian server freeze?

I installed Debian 9 ("Stretch") in a virtual machine hosted on ESXi 6.5 The OS is up-to-date and nothing else has been installed but VMware tools. Sometimes when I execute a command, the server will freeze and nothing can be done besides resetting…
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Server 2012 R2 unexpected crash DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

I've a Windows Server 2012 R2 server which acts as Hyper-V host for multiplice Windows/Linux VMs. Since yesterday the server is offline from one second to another, and will reboot automatically. I found out that this is caused by a bluescreen:…
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ESXi v5.5 is having random crashes

HW: Type: HP Proliant ML350 G5 RAM 22GB CPU 1 x Intel Xenon E5405 2.00GHz OP: ESXi 5.5 just updated from 5.1 to try and fix the crashes occurring on ESXi 5.1 on same hardware. I'm trying to find the error on why one of our servers is crashing, it…
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Is a hardware watchdog already active at my CentOS server?

I rent a dedicated server (with Intel Haswell CPU and custom hardware) at a lowcost hosting service and use it with CentOS 6.4 / 64 bit Linux (with stock kernel: 2.6.32-358.14.1.el6.x86_64). Every few weeks it hangs and the other customers seem to…
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Analyzing BSOD dump file from Windows 2008 R2 SP1

I have a problem with a virtual Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 server running withing VMWare. The server is running Citrix and also has Symantec Endpoint protection installed. It randomly crashes and goes to BSOD. Investigating the event log didn't…
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PAM unable to dlopen(/lib64/security/pam_fprintd.so) causing CentOS/Redhat server to crash

CentOS 6, Parallels PLESK 10.4, Apache One of my servers went down over the weekend much to my dismay. On the day and time it occurred, my log errors/messages end with this - /var/log/secure: Jul 29 03:53:15 u######## su: PAM adding faulty module:…
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How to disable core dumps on Debian 8

I pretend I've already tried everything out there, but my Debian 8 keeps creating core dumps when something crashes. It's happening about once or twice in a month. It's a production server for a few websites, with packaged Apache 2.4, php5-fpm and…
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InnoDB: Fatal error: cannot allocate memory for the buffer pool

MySQL Seems to be crashing quite often, I'd say every hour or so. The only thing running on this server that is using MySQL is a Drupal installation that I'm working on, there's only one person that's using it and it literally has around three…
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Hyper-v on 2012R2 startup gen1 vm causes the host to freeze up

I've searched a lot to resolve the following issue, but nothing helped me. My problem is, that starting up a first-gen vm locks up the whole host. Only a hard reset helps. Second-gen vm starts and runs perfectly. The freezes happened on 3 different…
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Anybody experiencing full system lockups with LUKS?

I've recently setup a couple of new servers. This time I'm encrypting most of my partitions using dmcrypt+LUKS. However these new servers crash very often, every few days. Full lockups, kernel does not respond to keyboard, system does not ping.…
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Apache httpd processes and PHP out of memory

I have a VPS running apache-php-mysql on centos and a single drupal website installed. The VPS has 256MB of RAM (could be the root cause of all my problems... maybe I just need more). Whenever I try to open my website from multiple browser tabs…
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Crash dump analysis

I hope this isn't a stupid question, and if it is, then I want to at least get it over with so I don't feel so dumb in the future. Here we are, loading up a Windows crash dump with Windbg. Here are the first few lines of the debugger output: 0: kd>…
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MySql Data Loss - post mortem analysis - RackSpace Cloud Server

After a recent 'emergency migration' of a RS cloud server, the mysql databases on our server snapshot image proved to be days out of date from the backup date. And yet files that were uploaded through the impacted webapp had been written to the…
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Can disk space be the reason for a server crash?

After looking into the MySQL error file, I found an error regarding disk space. Now I think its the reason for MySQL crashing: [root@xxxx ~]# cat /var/lib/mysql/xxxx.com.err 120528 17:45:05 [Note] Crash recovery finished. /usr/sbin/mysqld: Disk is…
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