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On Saturday 30 July 2011 11:17:52 Dale wrote: |
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> What could have caused this? Could it be a file system problem? I |
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> don't think it is a physical failure since it is working now after |
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> giving it a fresh start. I just don't get how this could have caused a |
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> kernel panic. This is plain weird. |
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One possibility is that, having now written to almost every location on the |
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disk, its controller has marked some faulty blocks that used to contain code |
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in the disk subsystem. If it was reading damaged data, there's no surprise |
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in anything that happened next! |
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> Would love to hear some thoughts on what caused this problem given the |
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> fix. |
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That's mine :-) |
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(And it's not far off what I suggested to you before: that the lightning |
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strike had damaged your hardware.) |
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Rgds |
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Peter Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23 |
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