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From /var/log/messages: |
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Jan 16 01:35:27 osage -- MARK -- |
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Jan 16 01:55:37 osage -- MARK -- |
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Jan 16 02:15:44 osage -- MARK -- |
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Jan 16 02:35:52 osage -- MARK -- |
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Jan 16 02:55:58 osage -- MARK -- |
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This morning my computer was foobar'd (after 200+ days uptime). |
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Initially the screen was black -- not surprising as that's the screen |
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saver mode. |
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Moving the mouse didn't wake up Gnome. Pushing a key caused the screen |
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to refresh (after more seconds than is normal) and show the VirtualBox |
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session I was using last night. |
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On the down side, moving the mouse didn't move the on-screen cursor. |
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There was no apparent keyboard response, and I didn't think to try the |
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magic SYSRQ key. |
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Switching to a second machine, I could ping the first machine just |
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fine. However ssh didn't produce a prompt. I let the connect attempt |
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continue while I ate breakfast (say 15 or 20 minutes). |
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So, I pushed the big red switch, rebooted the machine, then looked |
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at /var/log/messages. From 01:35 until 06:35, at intervals of 20 |
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minutes and 7 seconds, there were MARK messages as shown above. In |
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addition to that there was only 1 statistics message from syslog-ng. |
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Anybody know what a "--- MARK ---" message mean?? |
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Regards, |
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David |
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P.S. The machine is an AMD64 running 2.6.28-gentoo-r5. Overnight, |
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VirtualBox was running (though in an idle state) and (probably) |
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BackupPC was also running. Other than those 2 processes, nothing of |
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significance was running, AFAIK. |
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