Subject: Re: Instability problems, system crashing.
To: Ricardo Junior <ricardorsj@uol.com.br>
From: Greg Oster <oster@cs.usask.ca>
List: port-i386
Date: 05/23/2002 08:48:46
Ricardo Junior writes:
>
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> A month ago or so I installed a RAID1 volume setup with RAIDFRAME. The
> machine ran fine until today, when they called me home because the server
> was down. Unfortunatelly, the server was reset before proper procedures. I
> went there and the root filesystem (stored in raid0a) was dirty with two
> directories corrupted. I fsck'ed it and the system was up again. No core,
> nothing in the logs. This was the second crash, and I could not find out
> what happened.
>
> When I was finishing the "system checkup", I closed the open sessions and
> went back to the login screen. To verify if I had forgotten any consoles
> open, I switched the ttyE's with CTRL+ALT+F1/2/3/4 (fast, holding ctrl+alt
> and pressing "f1 f2 f3 f4" very fast). What happened? The kernel stopped again.
> I didn't have the time to write down a full stack trace. There were many
> people complaining. The message was: Stopped at cpu_Debugger +0x4 leave.
Ummmmm..... You wern't typing so fast that you didn't accidentally hit
CTRL-ALT-ESC, did you? (The above "message" certainly indicates that...)
(I have no guesses as to what caused the second crash -- more info (like the
full stack trace) is needed...)
Later...
Greg Oster