Message-ID: <1100D69203AAD2118E3C00508B8B9E8A17093A@mailhost.intech.unu.edu> From: "Heupink, Mourik Jan C." Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 15:29:41 +0100 Subject: FW: SuSE 6.2, kernel 2.2.17, RAID 1, random crashes suddenly star t happening Hello all. We are running a suse system on a compaq prosignia server. /home partition is raid 1, rest is ordinary fs2. It has been running for a while (months) without any problems. BUT: In the last two weeks all of a sudden it has stopped responding almost completely for two times. I am able to change virtual terminals (ctrl-Fx), type a username, but after i press enter, nothings happens anymore. Ctrl-alt-del doesn't work anymore, cannot telnet, cannot ping, http is down. (but since i CAN type a username, and change terminal, it's not completely dead, i think?) Anyway: some pieces from various logfiles: messages: Nov 12 00:28:59 intech003 -- MARK -- Nov 12 01:41:26 intech003 -- MARK -- Nov 12 02:31:38 intech003 -- MARK -- Nov 12 03:11:44 intech003 -- MARK -- Nov 12 03:53:14 intech003 -- MARK -- Nov 12 04:33:14 intech003 -- MARK -- Nov 12 05:12:11 intech003 -- MARK -- Nov 12 05:51:47 intech003 -- MARK -- Nov 12 06:29:44 intech003 -- MARK -- Nov 12 07:09:21 intech003 -- MARK -- Nov 12 07:47:51 intech003 -- MARK -- Nov 12 08:25:52 intech003 -- MARK -- Nov 12 09:04:56 intech003 -- MARK -- Nov 12 09:44:08 intech003 -- MARK -- Nov 12 10:24:09 intech003 -- MARK -- Nov 12 11:03:55 intech003 -- MARK -- Nov 12 11:44:49 intech003 -- MARK -- Nov 13 09:51:28 intech003 syslogd 1.3-3: restart. Nov 13 09:51:29 intech003 kernel: klogd 1.3-3, log source = /proc/kmsg started. Nov 13 09:51:29 intech003 kernel: Inspecting /boot/System.map Nov 13 09:51:30 intech003 kernel: Symbol table has incorrect version number. Nov 13 09:51:30 intech003 kernel: Cannot find map file.warn: Nov 10 14:55:25 intech003 login[14557]: pam_unix session finished for user xxxxx, service login Nov 10 17:51:51 intech003 login: pam_unix session started for user root, service login Nov 10 17:54:42 intech003 login[11696]: pam_unix session finished for user root, service login Nov 10 17:54:53 intech003 login[206]: pam_unix session finished for user root, service login note the gap between 11:44 and 09:51. also in warn: Nov 3 22:21:56 intech003 /usr/sbin/gpm[152]: Error in protocol (but i'm sure that has nothing to do with it?) (since gpm was running without a mouse connected... sorry!) (changed it already) Could it have to do with the raid setup? I've made a custom kernel, but didn't change it during the last months. Versions: mdutils 0.41, release 68, build date: fri aug 6, 23:48:57 <p>Furthermore, I did apply the security updates from SuSE. (aaa_base, apache, cron, gpm, libc, mod_perl, perl and shlibs) (from ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.2/) (maybe that broke things? applied them using yast, and got no error messages) Anyway: I hope any of you people can shed some light on this issue. (because at the moment our nt-servers run more stable than the linux server.....!) Thanks very much in advance, Mourik Jan UNU/INTECH