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Adam [Tom has asked me to help.] > To: Unidata Support <address@hidden> > From: address@hidden > Subject: Re: 20030614: did something change at ULM? > Organization: ULM > Keywords: LDM-6 IDD firewall The above message contained the following: > On friday we shut down our I2 line and rerouted everything through the I1 to > see if the I2 was what was wrong. From what you said that is the case and we > will be contacting bellsouth about our I2 line. "I2" means "Internet-2". I assume that "I1" means the commodity Internet. Please correct me if I'm wrong. > Now for the problem. LDM-6 is entirely unstable on tornado. It has > completely locked up the machine twice now. I don' mean a process > hung either, i mean a totally dead, black screen, can't ping lockup. This indicates a problem with the operating system because a user process should never have this affect. > When i told you i just did not have time to put LDM-6 on tornado i had > forgot about one time. About acouple of months ago i had tried to put > LDM-6 on tornado. I had the result of tornado only lasting from 3 > days to less then 1 day before completely locking up. I had thought > that i had just done something wrong but since i did not have time to > trouble shoot it i just put LDM-5 back on the machine. > > Now, it is doing the same thing as before. Locking up solid. > I looked at the ldm logs and at the time of the lockup the logs just > stop. There is no shutdown in the logs or anything, they just stop!. > > I'm rebootting the machine but not restarting the ldm so that you an > look around and see if you can find the reason for the ldm locking up > the machine. I'm on Tornado now as the user "ldm" and LDM 6.0.13 is running. I assume you started it just after you rebooted the computer. I'll be poking around. > Thanks > > Adam > > ps.. When ldm-5 was on there, it had been running for 3 months straight > without any problems. I believe that you were losing data when the LDM 5 was running. Regards, Steve Emmerson