SOLVED! Server Fubar'ed - Ideas welcomed

[Matthew Carpenter]

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Michael Hipp wrote:
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> - fsck.xfs /dev/hda2 (doesn't do squat, back to man pages) -
> xfs_check /dev/hda2 (prints lots of stuff) - xfs_repair /dev/hda2
> (appears to succeed, do xfs_check again, clean) - boot the system
> still using old 2.6.8 kernel - apt-get install nmap (succeeds!) -
> apt-get remove nmap (succeeds!) - apt-get install
> linux-image-2.6.10-5-386 (succeeds!) - reboot into the 2.5.10-5
> kernel (runs, clean)
>
> So the problem evidently was: Bad fan causes cpu overheat, crashes
> while installing kernel update, causes xfs filesystem corruption)
>
> Strange thing is, it was showing /dev/hda2 as clean on boot. But it
> surely wasn't.
>
> Well, learned alot.
>
> (This is one of the reasons I LOVE LINUX. This was a pretty bad
> problem (for me, anyway). On Windows it would have been unfixable
> other than by wipe clean and reload or just buy a new computer. But
> on Linux things can be fixed on the rare occasions they break.)
>
> Thanks for everyone's help,

Well why didn't you *say* it was XFS!  ;)

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Matthew Carpenter
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