[CentOS] Re: Weird crash with CentOS 5.1
Scott Silva
ssilva at sgvwater.com
Thu Jan 3 23:33:03 UTC 2008
on 1/3/2008 7:53 AM Jean-Yves Avenard spake the following:
> Hi
>
> On Jan 4, 2008 2:43 AM, Jim Perrin <jperrin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Odd. Have you checked the memory with memtest?
>
> I haven't. Simply because it runs so well under Windows.
>
> But I had plan to buy new RAM tomorrow, they are so cheap these days...
>
>> Which version of Windows? This shouldn't make a difference, but it's
>> been known to cause issues.
>
> Windows XP SP2.
>
>> Anything special happen on that day? Windows updates, linux updates,
>> application updates etc?
>>
>
> Well, the user told me that no he didn't.
> Reason being linux had just been fully re-installed (due to the same
> crash), and Windows had been running for several weeks no reason to
> upgrade, and people are instructed no to install any updates.
>
> Windows is installed with the extfs driver.
>
> Now thinking about it, I did modify the sudoers list from Windows by
> editing /etc/sudoers.
Try fixing that, you could dos2unix that file, or restore from another machine.
>
> I actually did think that the issue could be with the Intel RAID not
> being handled properly and that somehow Windows wrote something on the
> ext partition that made the linux driver crash.
>
> It's very annoying.
> Jean-Yves
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