From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31020 invoked by alias); 8 Apr 2004 18:42:03 -0000 Mailing-List: contact overseers-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: overseers-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 31013 invoked from network); 8 Apr 2004 18:42:02 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO jifvik.dyndns.org) (81.104.194.28) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 8 Apr 2004 18:42:02 -0000 Received: from eCosCentric.com (garibaldi.jifvik.org [172.31.1.2]) by jifvik.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 157653FE01; Thu, 8 Apr 2004 19:41:57 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <40759CF4.1020407@eCosCentric.com> Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2004 18:42:00 -0000 From: Jonathan Larmour User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthew Galgoci Cc: overseers@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: mysterious reboots References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2004-q2/txt/msg00125.txt.bz2 Matthew Galgoci wrote: > > The system appears to have locked up just before 6am EDT. I power cycled > it remotely around 7:30am EDT. Frank was on the box just after it came > up and I assumed he would take a look at things. > [snip] > I do know that there are open issues with the aacraid driver that manifest > as random hard locks, sometime occuring infrequently, other times the driver > doesn't last a week. It depends on the version of the aacraid hardware and > also the version of the aacraid firmware. So the question then becomes whether any filesystems are corrupted, even if they were unmounted successfully (and therefore were marked as clean and thus not checked on reboot). I know from experience that linux kernels don't take fs corruption, however caused, kindly and oopses etc. are certainly possible. Jifl -- eCosCentric http://www.eCosCentric.com/ The eCos and RedBoot experts --["No sense being pessimistic, it wouldn't work anyway"]-- Opinions==mine