Server Freezes

[Robert Schaub]

On Mac System, Server is on a G3 powermac

Today I walked of to server V5.02 , clicked on file I want to close to do redefines in ,

server sent message to all machines still logged onto that file to close. Machine (I-Mac) nearest to server , the user was away at lunch. So I walk over to

click message close now, I get back the server and it is frozen.

Large file on server gets damaged due to crash and is still recovering. No one onsite now (hope it doesn't freeze up now)

Anyway The last place I worked also had many crashes of the server.

(No I did not set up either network) Is it a software or hardware issue?

[stanley]

Chopper:

What's the OS on the server?

-Stanley

[Robert Schaub]

Sorry, Server and most of the system is on OS 9, How ever some connect via Jag.

When system when down Jag mach. were not connected to server.

[stanley]

Chopper:

I've just had a somewhat similar experience - my post is right next to yours in the list if you want to have a look - and it seems to have come down to a hardware problem, which I've still not diagnosed fully, but the system is back up and running. As far as I could tell, something went awry in the networking hardware. Whether it was the ethernet switch, a cabling error, the DSL router or some combination of those, I couldn't get the system back up until I'd reset the network hardware.

I'd had all kinds of problems with the server running OS9 two years ago (on a nearly identical system) and all that went away when I downgraded the server to OS 8.6 at the suggestion of some of the guys here on the forums. Since then neither of my clients has had problems with server crashes until now.

I don't have any experience with Jaguar (no money to upgrade) but you've said the Jag machines weren't connected...

Hmm. I'd say either the server's OS 9 setup is not quite right - someone else can help you with that because I no longer use OS 9 for server (for client it's fine) - or there is some other hardware issue. Of course, you should run any diagnostic you can on the server to make sure you don't have any hard drive issues, or anything else that might be physically going wrong there.

-Stanley

[Vaughan]

I've had network problems too. Sun spots?

[stanley]

Sun spots? Again? Arrgggh!

Now I've just had a call from the same client who has had problems all week, and there is yet another problem, which I will assume is part of the same original problem - something to do with the networking equipment. What he's seeing now is that data entered on one machine is not making it to another machine - i.e., data is not being fully transferred to the server. I don't like this one bit.

-Stanley