John Trickey wrote:

Hi,

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Dec 28 09:21:10 server -- MARK -- ^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@ ^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@ ^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@ ^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@ [many many more of this] ^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@ ^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@ ^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@ ^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@ Dec 28 14:34:46 server syslogd 1.3-3: restart.

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reboot system boot 2.2.16 Fri Dec 28 14:34 (1+20:48) reboot system boot 2.2.16 Fri Dec 28 11:56 (1+23:26)

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Anyway, I wonderd if anyone has seen something similar yet and if I have to worry.

The ^@(ASCII 00)'s are not unusual in a system crash however there are questions to be asked. Start with "what happened to the reboot at 11:56? Why no syslog entry?". Also look for physical causes. Power failure/glitch. Any other equipment affected?

HTH John

Problem is that this place is closed and I cannot contact anyone right now. At the moment I tend to think it was a 'normal' system crash i.e. someone hitting the reset button (probably trying to turn on the machine when it was actually running - yes my users do that...). All further investigation so far has not yielded any more suspicious results so I will contact the people on Jan 2nd. Thanks everyone for your input! Erwin

--- Joachim Weller wrote:

Am Sonntag, 30. Dezember 2001 11:38 schrieb Erwin Zierler - stubainet.at:

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Hi all,

I have recently found the following lines in /var/log/messages on one of my servers running SuSE 7.0, kernel 2.2.16, openssh-2.1.1p1-19:

Dec 28 09:21:10 server -- MARK --

^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^

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Anyway, I wonderd if anyone has seen something similar yet and if I have to worry.

I've seen the very same symptoms after system crashes in different log files. The filesystem is reiserfs. I don't know if this has something to do with it. Sometimes there have been kde config files affected the same way, which crashed afterwords KDE, when trying to read them. For me it's for pretty sure, that this is no hack.

Even worse - it sometimes affect binary files! And then afterwards when you try to execute it, you get "binary format error" or "not ELF-header found" :( Some people told me it's reiserfs, and some others - that it's kernel 2.4.x... Anyone has an idea what can be done against this? Eduard __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/

Am 07.01.02 15:59:54, schrieb Eduard Avetisyan :

--- Joachim Weller wrote:

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Am Sonntag, 30. Dezember 2001 11:38 schrieb Erwin Zierler - stubainet.at:

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Hi all,

I have recently found the following lines in /var/log/messages on one of my servers running SuSE 7.0, kernel 2.2.16, openssh-2.1.1p1-19:

Dec 28 09:21:10 server -- MARK --

^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^

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Anyway, I wonderd if anyone has seen something similar yet and if I have to worry.

I've seen the very same symptoms after system crashes in different log files. The filesystem is reiserfs. I don't know if this has something to do with it. Sometimes there have been kde config files affected the same way, which crashed afterwords KDE, when trying to read them. For me it's for pretty sure, that this is no hack.

Even worse - it sometimes affect binary files! And then afterwards when you try to execute it, you get "binary format error" or "not ELF-header found" :( Some people told me it's reiserfs, and some others - that it's kernel 2.4.x... Anyone has an idea what can be done against this?

Eduard

i have suse 7.3 PRO and reiserfs too. The problems appears two weeks ago , but the router runs about 2 month ......! greez , jim

Am Montag, 7. Januar 2002 16:45 Marian wrote:

I have the same problem on 7.1 ( 2.4.0 ) on a mail server with raid 5 on 4 SCSI disks. It happened with e-mails, messeges and logs. [...] My friend and i have configured other 2 machines in the same way with suse 7.1 kernell 2.4.0, still the same problem. Recently we have installed the 7.3 and it seems that the problem has disapeared. On the 7.2 i haven't encountered the problem yet.

My machine(s) indeed run SuSE-7.2, but with standard self compiled Kernel (now 2.4.16) on a Dual Pentium-Pro SMP machine. The problem was the same with older Versions of SuSE and older SMP Kernels (2.4), all with reiser filesystems. It mainly occures when I was forced to "Hard-" power off due to system hangs by cutting off Power. I suspect BIOS/PCI/APIC Interrupt-share Problems for the hangs on my old Mainboard hp Vectra XU6/200. During boot I get always: -------------------------------------------------- <4>ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs <3>BIOS bug, IO-APIC#0 ID is 16 in the MPC table!... <3>... fixing up to 0. (tell your hw vendor) <3>BIOS bug, IO-APIC#0 ID 0 is already used!... <3>... fixing up to 2. (tell your hw vendor) <6>...changing IO-APIC physical APIC ID to 2 ... ok. --------------------------------------------------- Luckily this happens pretty seldom, once in a couple of months. Joachim -- Joachim Weller Philips Medizinsysteme Boeblingen GmbH Mail: joachim_weller@hsgmed.com Cardiac and Monitoring Systems (CMS) Phone: {+49|0}-7031-463-1891 New Product Engineering Fax: {+49|0}-7031-463-2112 Hewlett-Packard Str. 2, D 71034 Boeblingen -GERMANY-

* John Andersen (jsa@pen.homeip.net) [020108 19:45]:

I get lot of apic errors, and can't find anything on the web as to what to do about them. I only get them on the dual Celery boxes, not on the dual PII boxes.

You can always boot with the 'disableapic' option but I'm not sure if something bad will happen on an smp machine. 7.3 has apic enabled by default and it's caused a few problems. But let's get back on topic now... -- -ckm