Declan Moriarty wrote: > > There I was minding my own business when out of the blue, I could > not log in. The exact sysptoms were about 1 second after the login screen > appeared, the screen would blank, there would be periodic very brief flashes > onscreen, and periodic disk activity. Ctrl/alt/del would bring back the login > screen and shutdown activity as normal. No faults shown in /var/log/messages, > or on /var/log/boot.log. e2fsck gave a clean bill of health to the linux drives. > > The system is a K6/2-500, 64MB ram, Appollo MVP3 (?) chipset, Award Bios, 8MB S3 > Trio agp card, 2.2.14-15 kernel, and disks: hda = 2.5 gig; hdb1 = /boot; hdb2 = > swap; hdb3 (4 gig) = /; hdc =cdrom. All are ide, which is built into the > kernel. The version is the version 6 gold pack, with the 7.0 update. [snip] > > 1. what caused the first system to die 1 second after login prompt? There's > very little running on it.(atd, cron, gpm, network, linuxconf, lpd, kudzu, and > local - none of the network protocol stuff which could have delays in there). > Last thing showing in /var/log was linuxconf. I killed that (Interactive > startup) but it didn't help. I wouldn't claim to be fully competent with linux, > but I can access this old install if such is needed. Did your hostname change at some stage ? This would kill xfs (which is really a pain in the **). Did you try booting up in level 3 (LILO: linux 3) ?\ Buchan > 2. Are the hdd problems the result of it's unkoshered positioning, or is the > disk the problem? Why does e2fsck pass it when the system can't optimize it? > The disk in question is a Seagate ST34311A, and about 1 year old. > > -- > Regards, > > Declan Moriarty > -- |--------------------------------------------------------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone +27824722231 email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Centre for Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za South Africas first satellite: http://sunsat.ee.sun.ac.za Control Models http://www.control.co.za |----------------Registered Linux User #182071-----------------|
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