system gets crazy !

[C M Reinehr]

Vu,

On Sunday 14 October 2007 13:35, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> On 10/14/07, Vu Pham <vu at sivell.com> wrote:
> > 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 ?
>
> You need to configure it in /etc/smartd.conf.  Googling will show you
> some basic commands that can get you up & running too.

	In the meantime you can use smartctl to have a look at the drive in question 
to see if it's logged any errors. Something like: 
# smartctl --all /dev/sda

Good luck!

cmr

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