Of James Miller
Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005 7:12 AM
To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: dmesg output: impending hardware failure?
On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> How did you install the kernel? That is, did you install the general
2.6
> package for your archit
On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Ray Olszewski wrote:
How did you install the kernel? That is, did you install the general 2.6
package for your architecture (kernel-image-2.6-386, for example) or did you
install a specific kernel minor version (for example,
kernel-image-2.6.8-2-386)?
I believe I specifi
James Miller wrote:
[...]
On
the Synaptic issue: you are undoubtedly aware that Synaptic is a
graphical frontend for apt, I suppose?
Actually, no. I always use apt from the command line so I missed this
front end. oops.
[...]
I really didn't want an
updated kernel since I run vmware and h
On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Ray Olszewski wrote:
I can only offer a guess, James, but the guess is that this report is nothing
to worry about. I guess this from a look at the details.
Thanks for your input, Ray. I was beginning to think maybe it was not a
matter for much concern, so it's good to hea
James Miller wrote:
On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, chuck gelm wrote:
First: Backup your data on /dev/hdb! :-|
Second: I recommend editing /etc/smartd.conf to include
/dev/hdb -a
Then running
smartd
Then
tail -f /var/log/messages
and see whazzzup! ;-)
This doesn't reveal anything related to the drive.
On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, chuck gelm wrote:
First: Backup your data on /dev/hdb! :-|
Second: I recommend editing /etc/smartd.conf to include
/dev/hdb -a
Then running
smartd
Then
tail -f /var/log/messages
and see whazzzup! ;-)
This doesn't reveal anything related to the drive. Some mouse messages
Hi, James:
I'll top post because your example is long.
First: Backup your data on /dev/hdb! :-|
Second: I recommend editing /etc/smartd.conf to include
/dev/hdb -a
Then running
smartd
Then
tail -f /var/log/messages
and see whazzzup! ;-)
HTH, Chuck
James Miller wrote:
I run a Debian unsta
I run a Debian unstable system here and recently did a
dist-upgrade--actually the Synaptic equivalent. In the process, I got a
new kernel (2.6.12). On reboot, I noticed alot of errors referencing
/dev/hdb. This is not the oldest of the 3 hard drives I have in this
machine, but it's also not ver
