Comment 219 for bug 204996

Firstly I can't be certain whether I've really got this bug or not but, since it doesn't happen every few hours like in some other peoples reports. My lockups happen every 7 to 14 days, which is unusual for this system. So I just want to get my report in since the symptoms sounds similar to others and it may help the devs find the problem.

I built a server for my place of work a long time ago that ran feisty. It comes under heavy disk and network load regularly but has always been stable. I'd always planned to upgrade it to Hardy when it came out, liking the idea of it being an LTS.

Since the upgrade to Hardy I've had several crashes over a month period. The first two were during an rsync backup to an external USB harddrive. The last one occured today under heavy load: a network rsync session in full flow, a hylafax fax reception, folding@home running, a member of staff printing remotely via cups and myself accessing apache all pretty much simultaneously. As I said though in the past this wouldn't have tripped the little box up. Symptoms are what others describe: blank screen, no keyboard access, everything dead.

On all three occasions there has been nothing in any log to suggest the kernel had anytime to log an error. However I have noticed though that since fiesty the driver used for my SIS 5513 IDE controller has changed.

Finally this machine does not run X, it is headless.

Hardware:
ASUS A7S-VM with built in LAN, sound (disabled), and Video
Athlon 2000XP
2 x 512MB SDRAM