My Centos 5.2 box shuts itself down during a long tar -x. There is plenty of disk available. This is new; it worked in the past.
Any suggestions?
Thanks, Mike.
On Thu, Nov 05, 2009, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote:
My Centos 5.2 box shuts itself down during a long tar -x. There is plenty of disk available. This is new; it worked in the past.
Any suggestions?
Look in the logs, particularly dmesg, to see if there are any hints there.
Bill
On Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:04:50 -0800, Bill Campbell wrote:
On Thu, Nov 05, 2009, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote:
My Centos 5.2 box shuts itself down during a long tar -x. There is plenty of disk available. This is new; it worked in the past.
Any suggestions?
Look in the logs, particularly dmesg, to see if there are any hints there.
Bill
Nothing jumps out.
Mike.
On Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:51:35 +0000, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote:
On Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:04:50 -0800, Bill Campbell wrote:
On Thu, Nov 05, 2009, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote:
My Centos 5.2 box shuts itself down during a long tar -x. There is plenty of disk available. This is new; it worked in the past.
Any suggestions?
Look in the logs, particularly dmesg, to see if there are any hints there.
Bill
Nothing jumps out.
Mike.
I got it working again with a rescue, but it still crashes. Here are some suspect lines from messages:
Nov 5 19:35:14 mbrc21 kernel: hda: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } Nov 5 19:35:14 mbrc21 kernel: hda: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError } Nov 5 19:35:14 mbrc21 kernel: ide: failed opcode was: 0xb0 ... Nov 5 19:35:34 mbrc21 kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 201
What do you think?
Thanks, Mike.
On Fri, Nov 06, 2009, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote:
On Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:51:35 +0000, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote:
On Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:04:50 -0800, Bill Campbell wrote:
On Thu, Nov 05, 2009, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote:
My Centos 5.2 box shuts itself down during a long tar -x. There is plenty of disk available. This is new; it worked in the past.
Any suggestions?
Look in the logs, particularly dmesg, to see if there are any hints there.
Bill
Nothing jumps out.
Mike.
I got it working again with a rescue, but it still crashes. Here are some suspect lines from messages:
Nov 5 19:35:14 mbrc21 kernel: hda: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } Nov 5 19:35:14 mbrc21 kernel: hda: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError } Nov 5 19:35:14 mbrc21 kernel: ide: failed opcode was: 0xb0 ... Nov 5 19:35:34 mbrc21 kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 201
What do you think?
That sounds like either a hard drive going south, or perhaps something in the file system off enough that it's pointing to something off the disk.
In either case it doesn't sound good.
Bill
Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote:
My Centos 5.2 box shuts itself down during a long tar -x. There is plenty of disk available. This is new; it worked in the past.
Any suggestions?
Are you dropping things on top of running programs (like tar itself) or /proc or /sys?
On Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:03:49 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote:
My Centos 5.2 box shuts itself down during a long tar -x. There is plenty of disk available. This is new; it worked in the past.
Any suggestions?
Are you dropping things on top of running programs (like tar itself) or /proc or /sys?
I hope not; I am putting the result in a data directory.
In and case, I can't run at all now.
Mike.
On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 11:53:05PM +0000, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote:
On Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:03:49 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote:
My Centos 5.2 box shuts itself down during a long tar -x. There is plenty of disk available. This is new; it worked in the past.
Any suggestions?
Are you dropping things on top of running programs (like tar itself) or /proc or /sys?
I hope not; I am putting the result in a data directory.
Has your machine got a bad CPU cooling fan? The work involved in bulk operations like that might be causing it to overheat and perform a thermal shutdown.... or simply crash. I had a Windows machine that would work just fine, except one program would cause a crash after 10 minutes; turns out it was stressing the CPU and causing overheating problems 'cos the CPU fan had died! Nothing else was causing enough workload to cause the problem.
Stephen Harris wrote:
Has your machine got a bad CPU cooling fan? The work involved in bulk operations like that might be causing it to overheat and perform a thermal shutdown.... or simply crash. I had a Windows machine that would work just fine, except one program would cause a crash after 10 minutes; turns out it was stressing the CPU and causing overheating problems 'cos the CPU fan had died! Nothing else was causing enough workload to cause the problem.
On a related note, try running something like mprime http://www.mersenne.org/freesoft/ to stress the machine. See if it crashes when it is stressed.
Ryan
On Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:58:03 +0000, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote:
My Centos 5.2 box shuts itself down during a long tar -x. There is plenty of disk available. This is new; it worked in the past.
Any suggestions?
Thanks, Mike.
My computer vendor found that nothing was overheating, and it would require further work to find the problem. Since it is 6.5 years old, I opted to get a new computer for 315 USD.
Mike.
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