Hi Alexey,<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/4/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Alexey Loukianov</b> <<a href="mailto:aloukianov@lavtech.ru">aloukianov@lavtech.ru</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hello all,<br><br>a couple of weeks ago I've been installing CentOS 4.2 on a very-old<br>server machine with MSI server board based on Intel GX440 chipset, two<br>Xeons 500Mhz and one 1Gig of RAM. There is an AMI MegaRaid 467
<br>installed as a storage controller, which causes some troubles with<br>installation, as stock CenOS4 install and production kernels doesn't<br>have older megaraid.ko module compiled, but there are a lot of not so<br>very difficult ways to overcome it. After a clean-and-relatively-fast
<br>install first of all I had up2date-d it to CentOS 4.4, did some basic<br>initial reconfigurations, turned it off and left it lay around doing<br>nothing.<br><br>Today its time has come, and I turned it on. While booting I've seen a
<br>message "Segmentation fault" just after a line about "Starting up<br>LVM2". That's confused me a bit. Logged it as root, typed vgdisplay,<br>got a normal output and a message "Segmentation fault" after it.
<br>lvdisplay performed just the same - normal display of all LVM logical<br>volumes and a "Segmentation fault" at the bottom.<br><br>Next step was obvious:<br># rpm -Va<br><br>Huh, here we are. There's a bunch of RPMs with binary files in them
<br>changed since they've been installed. Just looks like it's a virus<br>job I thinked. But, wait! That's very strange! This server has been<br>laying around turned off and doing nothing since the moment I've done<br>the installation of the system. There were NO possible time for a
<br>virus to infect a system. Well, in any case, I took on my special<br>LiveCD with a ClamAV on it and a RamDisk for freshclam to<br>store updated virus databases, booted it, mounted possibly infected<br>system and checked it with clamscan. There were NO viruses found.
<br><br>Well, I though that this might be caused by a faulty SCSI disk in<br>array, that distort the data that's being written to it, instead of<br>informing host that there's a bad block here. Ok, that's easy to<br>check. Let me go to the single mode, reinstall distorted RPMs using
<br>rpm -Uvh --replacepkgs, do a couple of 'sync's, remount all<br>filesystems with -O ro,sync, and check installed rpm's with a rpm -Va.<br>Headed on, done all above, got nothing. After a reinstall all files<br>became correct, and LVM tools got back to a correct behavior without
<br>"Segmentation fault". Hmm... that's strange, I thought. Well, at least<br>ATM I've got a correctly functioning system without viruses.<br>Huh, well, now it's time to reboot and check how does it performs. I'm
<br>going to do unattended reboots in future, it should reboot seamlessly<br>without excess questions.<br># shutdown -r now<br>Reboot went smoothly, but just as LVM2 was initializing, I've got<br>"Segmentation fault" message again! Damn! What's wrong?! Logged in,
<br>rpm -Va - gotcha! Again, device-mapper RPM was broken.<br>Well, let's reinstall it again, sync, remount root readonly, check with<br>rpm -V device-mapper. Done that - all seems to be ok, no output from<br>the rpm -V = files are intact. Rebooted again. Run:
<br>[root@omega MegaMgr5.20]# rpm -V device-mapper<br>..5..... /lib/libdevmapper.so.1.02<br><br>That's it. After each and every reboot I've got this file corrupted.<br>Looks like it's not a faulty HDD trouble, and it's not a faulty RAID
<br>controller. Most likely something corrupts this file during shutdown<br>process or during boot process. Haven't got enough time today to<br>investigate more deeply, going to continue with it tomorrow. Will post<br>here the results, if any.
<br><br>--<br>Best regards,<br> Alexey Loukianov mailto:<a href="mailto:aloukianov@lavtech.ru">aloukianov@lavtech.ru</a><br> System Engineer,<br> IT Department,<br> Lavtech Corp<br><br>_______________________________________________
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root@omega MegaMgr5.20]# rpm -V device-mapper<br>>..5..... /lib/libdevmapper.so.1.02<br><br>Is that the only file consistently corrupted or are there others? I've seen similar "mysteries" before that turned out to be a memory issue, once system memory, once CPU cache (that was really weird). I'm not sure this is a memory problem, but wouldn't hurt to run a memory test.
<br><br>Nick<br><br><br> </div><br></div><br>