Re: bad msgs in syslog...

From: Alistair Riddell <alistair@dont-contact.us>
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 20:48:55 +0100 (BST)

Your hard disk is probably about to die...

On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Squid Mailing List account wrote:

>
> Recently we got the following nasty messages in our syslog files.
> Everything is back to normal now, but these messages have us a bit
> worried. Is this a general hard disk problem? Or is squid doing something
> strange here?
>
>
>
> Aug 18 06:40:00 proxy1 /USR/SBIN/CRON[737]: (root) CMD (updatedb)
> Aug 18 06:40:00 proxy1 /USR/SBIN/CRON[738]: (root) CMD (/usr/sbin/atrun)
> Aug 18 06:40:57 proxy1 kernel: hdb: dma_intr: status=0x51 {DriveReady
> SeekComplete Error}
> Aug 18 06:40:57 proxy1 kernel: hdb: dma_intr: error=0x40 {UncorrectableError},
> LBAsect=954482, sector=954418
> Aug 18 06:40:57 proxy1 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:41, sector
> 954418
> Aug 18 06:40:57 proxy1 kernel: EXT2-fs error (device 09:00):
> ext2_read_inode: unable to read inode block - inode=477226,
> block=1908837 Aug 18 06:41:01 proxy1 kernel: hdb: dma_intr: status=0x51
> {DriveReadySeekComplete Error}
> Aug 18 06:41:01 proxy1 kernel: hdb: dma_intr: error=0x40 {UncorrectableError},
> LBAsect=954482, sector=954418
> Aug 18 06:41:01 proxy1 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:41, sector
> 954418
> Aug 18 06:41:01 proxy1 kernel: EXT2-fs error (device 09:00):
> ext2_read_inode: unable to read inode block - inode=477228,
> block=1908837
> Aug 18 06:42:00 proxy1 /USR/SBIN/CRON[765]: (root) CMD (run-parts --report
> /etc/cron.daily)
> Aug 18 06:45:01 proxy1 /USR/SBIN/CRON[818]: (root) CMD (/usr/sbin/atrun)
>
>
> As you can see after about 5 minutes, everything returns to normal. This
> happened only a couple times - and currently everything seems to be
> running just fine. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
>
> Thanks in advance...
> Marcus Hecht
>
> ====================================================
> Marcus Hecht PCs Made Easy
> Support Specialist Internet Services
> marcus@pcez.com http://www/pcez.com
> ====================================================
>

-- 
Alistair Riddell - BOFH
IT Support Department, George Watson's College, Edinburgh
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Received on Tue Aug 18 1998 - 12:50:17 MDT

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