Re: 2.0.30 goes nuts

Blu3Viper (david@127-0-0-1.kalifornia.com)
Mon, 18 Aug 1997 09:03:38 -0700 (PDT)


On Mon, 18 Aug 1997, Andrej Presern wrote:

> 2.0.30 goes nuts. Filesystem becomes read-only (even though
> mounted rw, which mount shows to be correct), LOTS of zombie
> processes, processes that cannot be killed, machine accepts
> telnets and seems to work but cannot be shut down via init
> (shutdown -n did the job), load at 15 even though top shows
> 95% free.
> Nothing in the logs. As a matter of fact, logs were not being
> written any more from the moment fs went read only..
> Andrej

This looks suspiciously like bad sectors. Do you have a lot of D state
processes? Run init in single usermode and check your partition(s) with
e2fsck and badblocks.

David

[reply to: david@127-0-0-1.kalifornia.com without the 127-0-0-1.]
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