Osol b134 I''m experiencing a forced shutdown of a machine. It is proceeded with a number of beeps in a steady pattern like beep beep beep beep beep beep And onward. 2 beeps pause 2 beeps pause... etc. The beeps are the same tone on each set of beeps but each has its own tone. So its .. hi low pause hi low pause .. etc I''m not sure what it means but it appears to be somewhat serious since it will shutdown the machine at some point... and not too long about it. I suspect some fairly serious hardware problem. The machine is somewhat old 7-8 yrs and is: athlon64 +3400 (cpu (might be) 2.2Ghz or so) It has 3 sets of mirrored discs 2 Sets of 500gb (WD) 1 set of 750gb (WD) I''m running the machine on a KVM and had the opensolaris machine off the switch while having a laptop sharing the KVM. I''ve been using ssh to login to the problem machine up until now... and now no ssh comes up when I boot it. I know I will have to rerig things and connect mouse, keyboard, monitor direct to the problem machine, but once that is done is there some sort of semi-standard way of booting to an emergency set of tools to try to see what the problem is? I won''t have a lot of time, before the machine shuts down. Maybe 1/2 hr or so. I''m kind of having a brain freeze about this: So what are the standard tests or cmds to run to collect enough data to try to make a determination of what the problem is? And if worse case turns out to be the case and I have to get a new machine or some new hardware, can anyone offer a small outline of the steps that would be needed to move those discs to a new setup?
On 10/11/10 05:13 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:> Osol b134 > > I''m experiencing a forced shutdown of a machine. > It is proceeded with a number of beeps in a steady pattern like > > beep beep beep beep beep beep > > And onward. 2 beeps pause 2 beeps pause... etc. > > The beeps are the same tone on each set of beeps but each has its own > tone. So its .. hi low pause hi low pause .. etc > > I''m not sure what it means but it appears to be somewhat serious since > it will shutdown the machine at some point... and not too long about > it. > > I suspect some fairly serious hardware problem. The machine is > somewhat old 7-8 yrs and is: > athlon64 +3400 (cpu (might be) 2.2Ghz or so) > > It has 3 sets of mirrored discs > > 2 Sets of 500gb (WD) > 1 set of 750gb (WD) > > I''m running the machine on a KVM and had the opensolaris machine off > the switch while having a laptop sharing the KVM. I''ve been using ssh > to login to the problem machine up until now... and now no ssh comes > up when I boot it. > > I know I will have to rerig things and connect mouse, keyboard, > monitor direct to the problem machine, but once that is done is there > some sort of semi-standard way of booting to an emergency set of tools > to try to see what the problem is? > > I won''t have a lot of time, before the machine shuts down. Maybe 1/2 > hr or so. > > I''m kind of having a brain freeze about this: > So what are the standard tests or cmds to run to collect enough data > to try to make a determination of what the problem is? > >Your motherboard manual would be the best place to look, it sounds like the BIOS reporting something (failed fan?)> And if worse case turns out to be the case and I have to get a new > machine or some new hardware, can anyone offer a small outline of the > steps that would be needed to move those discs to a new setup? > >Plug them in. You will probably have to boot form a live CD, export and re-import the root pool to get it to boot. -- Ian.
> From: zfs-discuss-bounces at opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > bounces at opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Harry Putnam > > beep beep beep beep beep beep > > I''m kind of having a brain freeze about this: > So what are the standard tests or cmds to run to collect enough data > to try to make a determination of what the problem is?Definitely hardware. To diagnose hardware, no standard test. Start replacing hardware. You''ll know you fixed it when the problem stops.
Ian Collins <ian at ianshome.com> writes: [...]>> I''m kind of having a brain freeze about this: >> So what are the standard tests or cmds to run to collect enough data >> to try to make a determination of what the problem is? >> >> > Your motherboard manual would be the best place to look, it sounds > like the BIOS reporting something (failed fan?) > >> And if worse case turns out to be the case and I have to get a new >> machine or some new hardware, can anyone offer a small outline of the >> steps that would be needed to move those discs to a new setup? >> >> > Plug them in.Ha... I''d hoped that was how to do it. Thanks> You will probably have to boot form a live CD, export and re-import > the root pool to get it to boot.I was able to get logged in for a while today and grabbed the last logs from Oct 3. I see piles of warnings like this: Oct 3 17:36:01 zfs genunix: [ID 667643 kern.warning] WARNING: Postattach failed for hid8 Oct 3 17:36:01 zfs genunix: [ID 667643 kern.warning] WARNING: Postattach failed for hid17 But those are peripheral kinds of usb ports or such aren''t they? Where to look for any clues ... so far its been running for about 1/2 hr and not getting any beeps yet, so may be a good opportunity to extract some kind of diagnostics I can''t get X up ... it just went to a black screen, after seeing the main login screen, logging in to consol and calling: but am able to login at the terminal or ssh from elsewhere to the osol box. I''ve posted dmesg at: www.jtan.com/~reader/dmesg_osol.txt I haven''t scanned it thoroughly but didn''t see anthing I recognized as a clue. If the thing was getting hot, would there be a record left somewhere?
Harry Putnam <reader at newsguy.com> writes: [...]> I can''t get X up ... it just went to a black screen, after seeing the > main login screen, logging in to consol and calling:WHOOPS, omitted some information here... Calling: `startx /usr/bin/dbus-launch --exit-with-session gnome-session'' from console. Which is how I''ve been starting X for some time.
On 11 October, 2010 - Harry Putnam sent me these 0,5K bytes:> Harry Putnam <reader at newsguy.com> writes: > > [...] > > > I can''t get X up ... it just went to a black screen, after seeing the > > main login screen, logging in to consol and calling: > > WHOOPS, omitted some information here... > Calling: > > `startx /usr/bin/dbus-launch --exit-with-session gnome-session'' from > console. Which is how I''ve been starting X for some time.This thread started out way off-topic from ZFS discuss (the filesystem) and has continued off course. /Tomas -- Tomas ?gren, stric at acc.umu.se, http://www.acc.umu.se/~stric/ |- Student at Computing Science, University of Ume? `- Sysadmin at {cs,acc}.umu.se