This thread was started on the zfs list and I guess would properly belong here. Below is a short summary of the thread and a new response.
,---- | From: Ian Collins <i...@ianshome.com> | Message-ID: <4cb29bf8.8000...@ianshome.com> | References: <87bp71e59o....@newsguy.com> `---- On 10/11/10 05:13 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > Osol b134 > > I'm experiencing a forced shutdown of a machine. > It is proceeded with a number of beeps in a steady pattern like > > beep beep beep beep beep beep > > And onward. 2 beeps pause 2 beeps pause... etc. > > The beeps are the same tone on each set of beeps but each has its own > tone. So its .. hi low pause hi low pause .. etc > > I'm not sure what it means but it appears to be somewhat serious since > it will shutdown the machine at some point... and not too long about > it. > > I suspect some fairly serious hardware problem. The machine is > somewhat old 7-8 yrs and is: > athlon64 +3400 (cpu (might be) 2.2Ghz or so) > > It has 3 sets of mirrored discs > > 2 Sets of 500gb (WD) > 1 set of 750gb (WD) > > I'm running the machine on a KVM and had the opensolaris machine off > the switch while having a laptop sharing the KVM. I've been using ssh > to login to the problem machine up until now... and now no ssh comes > up when I boot it. > > I know I will have to rerig things and connect mouse, keyboard, > monitor direct to the problem machine, but once that is done is there > some sort of semi-standard way of booting to an emergency set of tools > to try to see what the problem is? > > I won't have a lot of time, before the machine shuts down. Maybe 1/2 > hr or so. > > I'm kind of having a brain freeze about this: > So what are the standard tests or cmds to run to collect enough data > to try to make a determination of what the problem is? Ian responded: Your motherboard manual would be the best place to look, it sounds like the BIOS reporting something (failed fan?) Harry wrote: > And if worse case turns out to be the case and I have to get a new > machine or some new hardware, can anyone offer a small outline of the > steps that would be needed to move those discs to a new setup? > > Ian responded: Plug them in. You will probably have to boot form a live CD, export and re-import the root pool to get it to boot. ------- --------- ---=--- --------- -------- Edward Ned Harvey wrote: Edward Ned Harvey wrote: Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 07:33:28 -0400 From: "Edward Ned Harvey" <sh...@nedharvey.com> Message-ID: <000001cb6938$23f5afa0$6be10e...@com> References: <87bp71e59o....@newsguy.com> > From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Harry Putnam > > beep beep beep beep beep beep > > I'm kind of having a brain freeze about this: > So what are the standard tests or cmds to run to collect enough data > to try to make a determination of what the problem is? Definitely hardware. To diagnose hardware, no standard test. Start replacing hardware. You'll know you fixed it when the problem stops. [...] ------- --------- ---=--- --------- -------- Harrys' most recent response: I was able to get logged in for a while today and grabbed the last logs from Oct 3. I see piles of warnings like this: Oct 3 17:36:01 zfs genunix: [ID 667643 kern.warning] WARNING: Postattach failed for hid8 Oct 3 17:36:01 zfs genunix: [ID 667643 kern.warning] WARNING: Postattach failed for hid17 But those are peripheral kinds of usb ports or such aren't they? Where to look for any clues ... so far its been running for about 1/2 hr and not getting any beeps yet, so may be a good opportunity to extract some kind of diagnostics I can't get X up ... it just went to a black screen, after seeing the main login screen, logging in to consol and calling: but am able to login at the terminal or ssh from elsewhere to the osol box. I've posted dmesg at: www.jtan.com/~reader/dmesg_osol.txt I haven't scanned it thoroughly but didn't see anthing I recognized as a clue. If the thing was getting hot, would there be a record left somewhere? _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
