On Sun, 28 May 2000, Thomas Charron wrote:
> Well, the bind message is about three times more data then you gave me
> initially.. :-)
It helps to be sober AND at the console. Parties are not the best
places for troubleshooting. <g> Besides, last time, a certain fellow
admin of this box was taksed with fixing bind... and there were TONS of
errors from named... needle in a haystack syndrome.
> You're also all up to date on your patches, I just checked. The only
> one not applied is gpm-root update, but I'm sure that'll get fixed as soojn
> as you read this.. :-)
Would removing gpm be good enough? We don't even have a mouse on this
box.
> Like I said earlier, I'd be willing to bet on Derek's answer of bad
> hardware.
I'm thinking this is the problemm. After searching public archives
(after numerous 404 errors and unanswered questions on this subject) it
looks like bad RAM.
> Any idea how long it
> was hung before you rebooted?
Nope. I had fallen asleep on the couch. It wasn't working when I got
up. (Third shift sleep woes...)
> According to this, it was like 23 minutes before the reboot. I also
> noted this, which is pretty trivial, but should be noted:
>
> May 27 13:34:54 rigor kernel: keyboard: Too many NACKs -- noisy kbd cable?
> May 27 13:34:54 rigor kernel: keyboard: Too many NACKs -- noisy kbd cable?
...or it could be a bad kvm switch... it's ancient. And I was
installing Mandrake on the othe box on the kvm at the time, so switching
back & forth could have caused this.
> Also, what did you end up doing about the CDROM drive and floppy drive?
> I noticed untill yesterday that they are still listed using supermount,
> which leads to the millions of daily device errors. *BAPBAPBAP* Try making
> them normal mount points for now, not using supermount.
They only give errors if you don't manually umount them. But I removed
the supermount option from the fstab anyway.
...time to splurge for more RAM...
Brian
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