UI locked up overnight

[insomniak]

I woke up to find that the GUI was locked up and not able to access it. None of my dockers were accessible either. I was able to access the disks and shares directly from the machine but it seemed much slower than normal. Ended up having to reboot the server and things seem to be normal now except for the log is starting to fill up quickly.

 

Just found out about syslog server and unfortunately it was not enabled before the reboot. I have that running now in case it happens again.

 

I've attached diagnostics and hopefully this would help pin point what may have caused it.

afterdark-diagnostics-20220517-0936.zip

[trurl]

Your syslog is filling with these

May 17 08:11:01 afterdark kernel: ata3: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
May 17 08:11:01 afterdark kernel: ata4: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
May 17 08:11:02 afterdark kernel: ata5: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
May 17 08:11:02 afterdark kernel: ata6: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)

Maybe controller problem

[insomniak]

I have a HP 468405-002 SAS Expander so it would be this controller right? If it's starting to die or be an issue, is there another way to test to make sure it is? All of my HDD on the array go through here. Caches are nvme drives which are an ASUS Hyper M.2 via PCI.

[JorgeB]

Those SATA link down messages are from the onboard SATA controller, there's nothing on those ports so they should be harmless other than spamming the log, just recently another user with a similar board had the same issues, so likely BIOS related.

[insomniak]

You might be referring to my other post that you helped me on too. Overtime, if the log filled up to 100% would that cause the GUI to freeze like it did overnight? 

 

I'm on a Gigabyte GA-7PESH board. I can look in the BIOS but not quite sure where I would start to find the issue. Any guidance is appreciated.

[JorgeB]

13 minutes ago, insomniak said:

Overtime, if the log filled up to 100% would that cause the GUI to freeze like it did overnight? 

It shouldn't.

 

13 minutes ago, insomniak said:

I can look in the BIOS

Most likely a BIOS bug, but you can look for an update if available.

 

[insomniak]

Ok, hopefully this freeze up was just random and at least I now have syslog server running in case that'll help diagnose anything else later. Thanks again for your help and I'll leave it as is for now.