From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0) Description of problem: Very quiet system, running 10 to 20 days hangs at 4:02am with disk light on. Responds to pings, but cannot log in. Console unresponsive. Reboot and examine, and not much to see. Logging stops at 4:02 am lastcomm shows last completed commands are makewhatis.cron, awk, then renice. I believe that updatedb runs next. This is a stock RH 7.1 system w/original kernel. It happens every 15 days or so, on one box, and a second box just did it this morning. I only have 2 boxes running 7.1. Both very quiet, one is running secondary dns for a couple of very quiet domains, and the other is doing nothing but spinning the disks. Hardware is cheap clone mobo with ide drives. Hardware was running flawlessly under 6.2 prior to reformat and install of 7.1. How reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1.Install 7.1 (vanilla) 2.Leave it run a few weeks 3. Additional info: I am not 100 percent sure this is a prob with updatedb, but it does leave the disk activity light in the ON state, so it seems likely some disk activity was occuring. Both boxes hung at 4:02 am, during cron.daily. Total of 4 (3+1) instances thus far.
I cannot reproduce this produce with your "steps to reproduce". Can you provide more detail?