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On Tuesday 07 June 2005 10:47, Robin Cornelius wrote: > Well of all days for it to happen my sarge server had a tantrum!. > > I though i would just force an apt-get upgrade to ensure that everything > was upto date. I went for coffee and came back to people shouting the > network is down! arrggg!. Pluged in a monitor to the server and there > was a buch of stuff to do with hda interrupts that i didn't write down > (doh!, but panic was rife) and much had scrolled off the screen anyway. > Server would not respond to anything other then the reset button (doh!). <snip> > > Any ideas? Was this a hardware induced problem or some other bug?, > clearly the kernel was locked up. > hda interrupts are normally a sign of a failing disk (or possibly of a duff kernel, but I'm guessing you haven't changed your kernel recently so this probably isn't it). Give it a good fsck! Regards, David. -- David Johnson www.david-web.co.uk - My Personal Website www.ethereye.org.uk - EtherEye Network Host Checker www.penguincomputing.co.uk - Need a Web Developer? -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe. FAQ: www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html