From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Nl4TU-0001NY-Tv for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:59:41 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AF9B4E0682; Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:59:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-fx0-f222.google.com (mail-fx0-f222.google.com [209.85.220.222]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 699B1E0682 for ; Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:59:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm22 with SMTP id 22so367102fxm.26 for ; Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:59:04 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=E0snbhA2W2TcuY50av1gscRZ1AaOT5AlI7xhzO3SOkQ=; b=FZ+XjDE4ao7u9o2qUzZVhvpmUaJ680wHVWz/aXO/vH/hHzLnurG91V6otZ0uD0n1Hq MS1i5tQLY+tKfI2DspaBzni27HXVhAtpwLAIMJt6b6D+AAax6Zb07CEkio8+vyY/pvvv wpDDh7VBpz8faM+NZrWl4E2QNdqFmTPlSO/QU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=vg2oWtOKDKT3Zjn3ftW4R/NFr7PMh3PqvlPFG3uFMDOZc/7AS1mWaDrGHvRZqeLjIw U2JgaOzRIlGGaaTD6WwTpZFc3FinB2AxfVxqYx9l7+pg1I7MrKsEsQ8C5Q+KBzPoJ81q JAq37TgIQIoJQsfJebCKUg+jptnLtIdBqvK0A= Received: by 10.223.5.81 with SMTP id 17mr967119fau.3.1267207144553; Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:59:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from energy.localnet (ip-80-226-1-7.vodafone-net.de [80.226.1.7]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 16sm298345fxm.15.2010.02.26.09.59.03 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:59:03 -0800 (PST) From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] recovery from /var corruption? Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:59:00 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.0 (Linux/2.6.32.8r4; KDE/4.4.0; x86_64; ; ) References: <5bdc1c8b1002251933s6a250b99v607c97e09f41d4fe@mail.gmail.com> <201002261827.27513.wonko@wonkology.org> <5bdc1c8b1002260951l7cf3fd77g24a966cf9b399b5c@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b1002260951l7cf3fd77g24a966cf9b399b5c@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201002261859.00344.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 6503a042-9161-4912-a497-0ebd97b2d230 X-Archives-Hash: 5114e008cc6b52d392d907296f56fe27 On Freitag 26 Februar 2010, Mark Knecht wrote: > > The machine _mostly_ crashed while running badblocks. I say mostly > because the mouse is still alive but I can no longer ssh in and cannot > open a terminal on my wife's desktop or get to the console. because it is not crashed but waiting for the ide timeouts. > > I tried to Ctrl-C out out of badblocks here (this is running shelled > in) before I figured out it was a total crash which messed up the > terminal a bit but you can see what it was reporting before the crash > > dragonfly ~ # badblocks -sv /dev/hda > Checking blocks 0 to 156290903 > Checking for bad blocks (read-only test): 89360960done, 35:00 elapsed > 89360961done, 35:09 elapsed > 89360962 > 89360963 > ^C^C18% done, 35:27 elapsed > > So, there seem to be problems, possibly with the drive, or maybe it's > some sort of overheating problem on the processor and this was just > the way the processor failed before the crash? > > I ran memtest86 night before last for 8 hours and had no memory > problems. I'll remove memory and PCI cards, reseat everything, and > then see what happens. protip: if you are running badblocks (or ddrescue) on a probably damaged device - attach it with an usb adapter. That way your box is still usable. /me hates linux kernel for making processes in D unkillable and sucking very much on diskio.