My guess is you have a bad memory stick.

Boot from your Ubuntu CD and select "memtest".

-J

Christopher Derr said the following on 04/30/2009 12:51 PM:
> I'm currently running the latest backuppc version that Ubuntu officially 
> supports (it's behind Debian as far as I can tell and I haven't tried to 
> use the Debian version): 3.0.0.  Apt-get shows it's the latest available 
> through Stable.  Anyway, the system (Tyan 2912G2NR, 8 GB memory, 4 TB in 
> RAID 5) crashes often.  Becomes untouchable, I go to the console, hit 
> enter to bring up a logon prompt, then the machine is officially 
> frozen.  I figure it's a kernel panic, but I'm not seeing anything 
> telling in any log I can find.  This happens almost exclusively when 
> backing up a one of our Windows fileservers using rsync with 700 GB+ 
> data over our 1 Gb link. 
>
> My thoughts are it could be Ubuntu or it could be the hardware.  They 
> system doesn't seem to have any issues except on this one machine's 
> backups, and even then it's not every time (just most of the time).  I'm 
> considering moving to Debian and the latest version of Backuppc (3.1...I 
> realize 3.2 is still in beta).  I think I just need to backup my 
> /etc/backuppc config files but if I keep the /var/lib/backuppc mount, I 
> should be able to reinstall the system without affecting the backups.  
> Not sure if the 3.1 upgrade is going to talk with the 3.0 backup files 
> though.
>
> Thoughts about Ubuntu or my upgrade in general?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris
>
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