[ale] Kernel panic

[James P. Kinney III]

On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 16:51 -0500, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> This box is almost 3 years old and has had no panics up to a few months
> ago.  This leads me to believe nothing is software could have caused
> this.  I reformatted the swap partitions and I could run fsck on the
> ext3 md0.  My gut says that if box is fine for 3 years then goes south
> then hardware must be at fault.  Also I reinstalled this system back in
> 12-05 due to the same fault so I don't think any disk corruption that
> could have happened over 3 years could have killed it over 1.5 months.
> 
> This is a PC Chips motherboard and my guess is that if I open up the
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I think you just named the error.



> case I might even fine some blown caps :)  Unfortunately this box is in
> Pineville, NC and I'm in Buford, GA
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 16:39 -0500, Emil Man wrote:
> > Chris,
> > 
> > I have seen Kernel Panic happen for several reasons in my systems. I
> > once had a kernel panic because /etc/fstab got messed up and my hard
> > drives went all out of whack. Grub was looking in /dev/hdb for the
> > kernel image which was in /dev/hda. I dont know why because all I did
> > was put in a new drive for a few minutes to test something, the
> > restored everything again as normal, and poooooffff.... 
> > 
> > 2006/2/13, Christopher Fowler <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com>:
> >         My thoughts exactly on controller.  This system has 2 drives
> >         that are
> >         raid1 via mdtools so I was not seeing disk death.  It was
> >         appearing as
> >         if the whole disk system was disappearing.  The last time this
> >         happened
> >         was in December and it caused ext2 corruption that propagated
> >         across the
> > 
> >  I would definatelly run fsck on your disks, to see if the filesystem
> > is in any way corrupt, or if you have bad blocks, etc. Obviously if
> > you are using a different filesystem, run the appropriate tool. I
> > think fsck is for ext2. I know I have reiser on most of my boxen and I
> > run reiserfsck or something along those lines. I use toms for such
> > cases since you obviously cannot fsck a mounted disk. 
> > 
> > 
> >         mirror.  The only fix was a full reinstall.  Since I had no
> >         access
> >         to /var/log/messages because of the corruption I had no clue
> >         what had 
> >         happened.  Now the box simply went south and after reboot I
> >         was able to
> >         see the syslog file and pull that oops from the file.  I then
> >         saw many
> >         other programs reporting messages to the syslog that they
> >         could no
> >         longer open files.  That is how I knew the system was still
> >         up.
> > 
> > 
> > Emil 
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