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 1Nhkxt-0001cr-Id for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:33:22 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 42CA1E0835; Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:33:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CB79E0835 for ; Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:33:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A41DD1B407F for ; Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:33:00 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.395 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.395 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.796, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id d8Y1UsbDZGD7 for ; Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:32:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04E521B40B8 for ; Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:32:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NhkxK-0007wn-I7 for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:32:46 +0100 Received: from c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net ([98.215.178.110]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:32:46 +0100 Received: from reader by c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:32:46 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Harry Putnam Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: log messages Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 08:32:23 -0600 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <87vddwq6fc.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <87fx50st8l.fsf@newsguy.com> <201002170100.34991.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <874olgs6fb.fsf@newsguy.com> <201002171047.57393.alan.mckinnon@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=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:U/N7hAsmSkXCiTsbmlSdJIDX9Io= Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 891c9c89-99d8-4784-9e7c-0377d3d6d494 X-Archives-Hash: 5e29de701f663d7d9caf594add63297f Alan McKinnon writes: > Remote logging and just leave it till the machine freezes again will > hopefully give you the useful logs you need to identify the > problem. To save disk space you can configure logrotate on the > remote logger to delete the previous days stuff - you don't need > logs from days where the box was working fine. Thanks, that may be worth a try... I wonder if with rsyslog (my logger of choice) it may be possible to log to localhost as well as remote? I think I'll look into that too. > Another option is to look at the pattern here: one day out of the > blue a stable system developed problems and they still surface at > random times. This is one of the characteristics of failing > hardware. Have you done a full thorough hardware test, including > such things as memtest and smart? I agree that it sounds like hardware but even then some log tracks should appear right? (Maybe I'll see them with the remote logging suggestion) > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Have you done a full > thorough hardware test Haven't done the memtest or smart But far as `full'; what other tests might I try? ps - I did find some reiserfs errors and currently running reiserfsck --rebuild-tree On that (now umounted) disk after a full backup, so maybe that is related and will cure the problem (fingers crossed hard)