On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 10:43 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 10:24 -0600, Tim Donnelly wrote: > > I am using Suse 10.2 on two different machines. One is a new Dell > > Poweredge 2970, the other is an older (2002) "no-name" server. > > I have the same problem with two machines, one a dual core x86_64 and a > AMD XP2000 ... self built together and working 2 and 5 years > respectively. > > > Both have experienced a strange and severe problem since I installed > > Suse. > > i had it with SuSE 9.3, 10.0, 10.1 (Boxed Novell purchased version) and > now with OpenSUSE 10.2 > > > > > Basically the file system is put into a read-only state. > > This I noticed only now with OpenSUSE 10.2, the others just locked up > solid.
I wonder if you have considered that the problem is hardware related and the timing of installing a new OS is coincidental? I say that from my own experience wherein a Dell server box was poorly ventilated and on really hot days (no airconditioning) the server filesystem would suddenly become either 'read-only' or I would have a complete hard freeze that required cycling the power button. Eventually I saw the connection with box temperature and the bad behaviour. Turned out that soon after the scsi drive in that box terminally failed so the software issues were just an early warning sign. My problems didn't end there, because after replacing the scsi drive the LSI controller card soon failed and refused to recognise/initialise the new drive. Moral of the story, you could have bad drive(s), controllers or ram that could cause the symptoms you see, and not software at all. Gavin -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
