helo,

I have asked the following question a few days back with no proper answer yet. However after seeing the following lines i stopped mcafee and the problem got solved. when i start back the problem is their. So stopping it is not the answer. Hence could anyone give any idea of what i can do.

thanks

error message

Jul 17 00:02:22 TESTSERVER nailsd-s[32555]: sendMessage 132 bytes write to fd 9 error n=-1 32 Broken pipe version=0x81000102
Jul 17 00:02:46 TESTSERVER nailsd-s[32556]: sendMessage 132 bytes write to fd 9 error n=-1 32 Broken pipe version=0x81000102

Original Question

I am having difficulties in figuring out what is happening to my system...the system was working fine till last sunday...on sunday when i tried to SSH using putty i could not and when I went into the server room it was stuck...so i had to restart from the power button...it was working fine. the last time i checked was after 8 hours...so i thought it was ok now...but in morning again the same problem... for the last 3 days...any idea?

well you have physical access so
remove the leftover .pid files you left on the system from hard crashing it

is it going to solve the problem by removing the .pid files and how do i remove the files.

when i look at the services using service --status-all the anti virus process is listed as nailsdctl: daemon is not running

i am asking this because if i start the antivirus back then the server hangs same time every night and i have to do a restart from the power button.

well i have never used mcafee on a linux install
( ClamAV normally finds more and finds them sooner than Norton or McAfee )

what is the errors you are getting in the logs ?
If nailsdctl is not starting , there will be a log of it

dose it manually restart ?

hi,

i have stopped the antivirus manually because if i run antivirus the server hangs midnight every day so i have to restart the server from power button manually

here is the only suspicious thing i find from log files

Jul 17 00:02:22 TESTSERVER nailsd-s[32555]: sendMessage 132 bytes write to fd 9 error n=-1 32 Broken pipe version=0x81000102
Jul 17 00:02:46 TESTSERVER nailsd-s[32556]: sendMessage 132 bytes write to fd 9 error n=-1 32 Broken pipe version=0x81000102

attached find error logs i got

Attached Files

dmesg and message.txt (125.3 KB, 44 views)

Broken pipes can indicate that a client or server is down.

Not knowing much about whatever

I guess you're running a backup at midnight that brings something down. And one of your processes is communicating with that 'something'.

So if you bring process A down (and process B assumes connectivity with process A), you also have to stop process B (and actually before you stop process A).

It's just a thought triggered by the fact that it starts at midnight, so checking your cron might be a place to look for the problem.

hi

i have been running backup for the past few years at midnight without any problem.

and the other thing is i stopped the backup and started antivirus for a week with no luck. every night the server hangs

thanks