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 -- INTERNET: bill at celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820 Fax: (206) 232-9186 Skype: jwccsllc (206) 855-5792 An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense that gold and economic freedom are inseparable. -- Alan Greenspan
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? -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
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. > > BillNothing 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 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.