I had a strange thing happen on my mythbackend. It's running FC3 (kernel 2.6.10-1.737_FC3) with 2 Maxtor 160gig drives in a logical volume. Sometime early Saturday morning, between 3 and 4 AM, the machine seemed to die. I already had a terminal session open on my laptop and if I tried to do anything I kept getting errors, like bus error. Nothing more specific than that.
I was stuck so I powered off and back on and all I got was "GRUB" in the top left corner and it would go no farther. So I started playing a little. I booted from linux rescue CD and ran run_qtparted. It could see both hard drives, but it said /dev/hda was empty. It could see ext2 on /dev/hdb. Then I booted from FC3 disc one because I wanted to see if the install would see the Linux installation. All it seemed to see was /dev/hdb. Next I booted from Maxtor's drive utility floppy to check out the drives. I ran the quick test and long test on both drives and they both passed all the tests. Then I rebooted the machine again, and now FC3 boots up! I had to go through fsck a couple times, but now it's working. It's made three recordings since then. The only problem I've had is when I tried watching a recording from a remote frontend I got this error on the backend a few minutes into it: WriteBlock(): Aborting WriteBlock, write to socket failed! This machine has been very stable for a pretty long time. I did just add a Via VT6122 gigabit NIC last week. Up to this point it caused no issues in the machine, but the same NIC did seem to cause some instability in another FC3 machine I have. I don't know if it has anything to do with it or not. Could this be the hard drive failing even though drive diagnostics says it's fine? Anything else possibly happening? I googled for bus error but it seems to be a non-specific error, or at least I got results for all kinds of things causing bus error. Any wisdom is appreciate! Thanks, James
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