system gets crazy !

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 10/14/07, Vu Pham <vu at sivell.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-10-14 at 08:16 -0700, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> > Sounds like the filesystem is hosed, or there's a hardware problem.
> > Anything in dmesg?
> >
> > On 10/13/07, Vu Pham <vu at sivell.com> wrote:
> > > I cannot reboot my remote FC7. init 6 returns me to the prompt and never
> > > reboot the system. "reboot" shows /sbin/reboot: Input/output error.
> > >
> > > The first problem was I was trying to run the remore firefox thru X
> > > forwarding and then vncviewer.
> > >
> > > Under vncviewer, running firefox says that the current firefox is not
> > > responding and that either firefox has to be killed or the system has to
> > > be restarted. ps -ef shows no ef so I used init 6 to restart it.
> > >
> > > Under X forwarding, running firefox says "X11 connection rejected
> > > because of wrong authentication."
> > >
>
> I found I/O error for sda5 on the screen. Rebooting the system ( by
> pressing the reset button) seems solved the problem.  But is it really a
> hard drive problem or a controller problem. This is a raid-0 system with
> three SATA hard drives and 3ware 9650SE controller.

Something bad is going on.  I'd be very surprised if rebooting
permanently eliminated the issue.  Does smartd report anything wrong?


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