system gets crazy !

[Vu Pham]

On Sun, 2007-10-14 at 08:59 -0700, Lonni J Friedman wrote:

> > > 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?
> 

Below is smtart output under /var/log/message.
Oct 14 13:14:30 o smartd[3421]: smartd is exiting (exit status 0) 
Oct 14 13:14:32 o smartd[32471]: smartd version 5.37
[i386-redhat-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen 
Oct 14 13:14:32 o smartd[32471]: Home page is
http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/  
Oct 14 13:14:33 o smartd[32471]: Opened configuration
file /etc/smartd.conf 
Oct 14 13:14:33 o smartd[32471]: Configuration file /etc/smartd.conf
parsed. 
Oct 14 13:14:33 o smartd[32471]: Device: /dev/sda, opened 
Oct 14 13:14:33 o smartd[32471]: Device /dev/sda, please try adding '-d
3ware,N' 
Oct 14 13:14:33 o smartd[32471]: Device /dev/sda, you may need to
replace /dev/sda with /dev/twaN or /dev/tweN 
Oct 14 13:14:33 o smartd[32471]: Unable to register SCSI device /dev/sda
at line 32 of file /etc/smartd.conf 
Oct 14 13:14:33 o smartd[32471]: Device /dev/sda not available 
Oct 14 13:14:33 o smartd[32471]: Monitoring 0 ATA and 0 SCSI devices 
Oct 14 13:14:33 o smartd[32473]: smartd has fork()ed into background
mode. New PID=32473. 


I didn't touch smartd since I installed this system. Am I supposed to do
anything with it  as the log shows ?

Vu