/ 2003-12-15 10:01:34 +0100 \ Jan Pieter Kunst:
Dear people,
I'm only an amateurish part-time sysadmin, so please bear with me.
This weekend our web server (SuSE 8.0) crashed. The machine could be pinged, but did not respond to http or ssh requests.
When I came in this morning, I could not get the screen to wake up, so I had to forcibly reboot the machine.
After rebooting, I checked the logfiles (at least those that I know about) and the only one in which something strange appeared was Apaches access_log: right after the last (innocent) request before the crash must have happened, there was a string of 762 \x00 characters, and then nothing until the time I rebooted the machine this morning.
Does anyone have an idea what this could be?
normal filesystem "corruption" after hard crash: unflushed, but allocated, blocks are zeroed out by journal replay or fsck. so related to you switching off the box, but no hint whatsoever to the cause of the hang. Lars Ellenberg