Re: What is this xfadump error?

[prmarino1]

Sounds like your hard drive or the controller are having issues‎.
 By any chance is/var‎ on sda. XFSdump keeps a catalog in /var/lib/xfs which is 
used for incremental backups.
I know this because about 3 or 4 years ago I had to file a bug ticket with Red 
Hat for RHEL 6 about improper selinux contexts on that directory.


  Original Message  
From: ToddAndMargo
Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2016 20:37
To: scientific-linux-users@fnal.gov
Subject: What is this xfadump error?

Hi All,

$ rpm -qa \*xfsdump\*
xfsdump-3.1.4-1.el7.x86_64

What is the meaning of this xfsdump error. There is
no /dev/sda on this system at the moment.

# /usr/sbin/xfsdump -v verbose -M 1 -L 1 -l 0 -f 
/lin-bak/2016-05-14_15-49-55_homeXfsDump /home

/usr/sbin/xfsdump: dumping non-directory files
WARNING: Your hard drive is failing
Device: /dev/sda [SAT], unable to open device
/usr/sbin/xfsdump: ending media file
/usr/sbin/xfsdump: media file size 453262590208 bytes
/usr/sbin/xfsdump: dump size (non-dir files) : 453181559704 bytes
/usr/sbin/xfsdump: dump complete: 5404 seconds elapsed
/usr/sbin/xfsdump: Dump Summary:
/usr/sbin/xfsdump: stream 0 /lin-bak/2016-05-14_15-49-55_homeXfsDump 
OK (success)
/usr/sbin/xfsdump: Dump Status: SUCCESS


And it succeeded!

/home is on /dev/sdb3
/lin-bak is /dev/sdc1

Really!

# fdisk -l /dev/sda
fdisk: cannot open /dev/sda: No such file or directory

Any idea?

Many thanks,
-T


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Re: T430 (was RE: SL 7.2 - Gnome 3.14 - gnome-terminal - titles)

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On 13 May 2016 at 23:37, Carl Friedberg  wrote:
> Greetings,
>
>
>
> My first post in a long time. Today, I installed SL 7.2 (workstation options
>
> including Gnome) from the 2-DVD distribution downloaded from the
>
> SL website, onto a Lenovo T430. On reboot, the system hung.
>
>

That sounds more like a kernel problem with the hardware. The black
screen means that it is stuck in rhgb quiet mode to make it pretty but
is hiding quietly the real problem. In the grub2 edit of a boot line
remove rhgb and quiet and try a reboot again. It should stop at a
certain point which will help pinpoint the error. [My guess with the
T430 is that it is one of the BIOS update issues. It could also be a
problem with an nvidia extra chipset in some of the units when it is
in a docking unit.]

>
> I tried the rescue option, hung also (by hung, I mean a completely black
>
> screen, no way to get a response).
>
>
>
> I did try the grub emergency boot, but I don't know enough about SL
>
> to do anything with that.
>
>
>
> Just another data point for those who might be interested
>
>
>
> Carl Friedberg
>
> www.comets.com
>
> carl.friedb...@comets.com
>
> http://about.me/carl.friedberg
>
>
>
> From: owner-scientific-linux-us...@listserv.fnal.gov
> [mailto:owner-scientific-linux-us...@listserv.fnal.gov] On Behalf Of
> Thompson, Herb
> Sent: Sunday, February 07, 2016 5:51 PM
> To: SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS@FNAL.GOV
> Subject: SL 7.2 - Gnome 3.14 - gnome-terminal - titles
>
>
>
> FYI for those who might be affected: 7.2 comes with an upgrade to Gnome 3.14
> which, as is usually the case for Gnome upgrades, results on the loss of
> some features present in the previous version.  The first nuisance I’ve
> encountered is the loss of the ability to set a custom window title in a
> gnome-terminal profile. (For those tempted to suggest I try
>  I plan to stick with Gnome as on the whole I do find
> it tolerable despite continued strange decisions by the developers.)
>
>
>
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