Hi people, OK I've tried swapping out hardware. I found an identical server, known to be working, and moved the RAID controller and the five drives over to that. In a stroke that meant different memory, cpu, power supply and motherboard. The result though stays the same :-( Kernel panic within a few seconds of reaching the login prompt. Interactive boot with no services running seems to be fine.
Has anyone on this list come across a similar issue? This is new to me so I'd appreciate any words of wisdom. Regards Huw -- Huw Wyn Jones Systems Administrator Coleg Meirion Dwyfor huw.jo...@meirion-dwyfor.ac.uk ----- Original Message ----- From: "Huw Wyn Jones" <huw.jo...@meirion-dwyfor.ac.uk> To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" <backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Tuesday, 26 January, 2010 16:30:47 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] ext3 filesystem limitations >> Any updates to packages recently that you can think of? >> Max None. Our network is like Fort Knox so once we have a box running reliably we tend to leave it alone. I'm pretty new to sysadmin'ing so I'm inclined to 'go-with-the-flow' at the moment. I also suspected hardware initially. However the RAID5 controller reports that all the disks are healthy, and (once the services have been switched off) it runs very reliably despite having rsync/scp copying files off it for most of the day. Similarly the processor is running at 20% load for the past 6 hours doing file transfers. :-/ Still, I hear you all saying hardware! Best dig out the test disks once I've secured a copy of the data. Thanks for your input Huw ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/