David,

I appreciate the update.  Unfortunately, I have not been able to 
reproduce those problems on any of the devices that I work with (about a 
dozen boxes).

When you get back from your vacation, get in touch with me off-list and 
we'll see what we can find.

Darrick


David Kerr wrote:
> This problem has returned.  As reported on 5th Jan, I loaded the 0.6.2 
> image on my ALIX 2C3 as downloaded from sourceforge and have been 
> running this for the last 5 weeks or so. No reboots. Very stable. 
>  Tonight I needed to reboot to pick up some configuration changes I 
> wanted to make to the firewall settings. The system did not come back. 
> Serial console shows...
> 
> Looking for AstLinux image...
> AstLinux image found!
> Configuring for unionfs...
> Checking asturw filesystem
> ext2fs_check_if_mount: No such file or directory while determining 
> whether /dev/
> hda2 is mounted.
> 
> 
> ASTURW: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY.
>         (i.e., without -a or -p options)
> Fsck detected errors on /dev/hda2 (4)
> /bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off
> #
> 
> 
> I can't figure out how to run fsck from astlinux in this state. So I 
> took the CF card (brand new sandisk ultra II 2GB) and connected it to my 
> system. First I tried Ubuntu and got...
> 
> da...@ubuntu-david:~/astlinux-0.6$ sudo fsck /dev/sda2
> fsck 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008)
> e2fsck 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008)
> fsck.ext2: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read 
> while trying to open /dev/sda2
> Could this be a zero-length partition?
> da...@ubuntu-david:~/astlinux-0.6$
> 
> Not a good sign, but I had previous success with CentOS in the past, so 
> I booted it up and got...
> 
> [r...@localhost ~]# fsck /dev/sdb2
> fsck 1.39 (29-May-2006)
> e2fsck 1.39 (29-May-2006)
> ASTURW contains a file system with errors, check forced.
> Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
> Extended attribute block 360938 has reference count 8, should be 5. 
>  Fix<y>? yes
> 
> Pass 2: Checking directory structure
> Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
> Pass 3A: Optimizing directories
> Pass 4: Checking reference counts
> Pass 5: Checking group summary information
> 
> ASTURW: ***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED *****
> ASTURW: 1604/233760 files (0.2% non-contiguous), 10688/467460 blocks
> [r...@localhost ~]# 
> 
> Looking good. So I then took the card, plugged it back into my ALIX 2C3 
> and booted successfully.
> 
> This is very disconcerting. This is an unmodified astlinux image, 
> nothing fancy in the way of asterisk configuration. The only things that 
> should be writing to the CF card are CDR records, and the very 
> occasional voice message. I am reading extra-sounds files from it. 
> Syslog is now going to ramdisk.
> 
> I'm about to head out on vacation so can't work on this for a while. But 
> something is not right... at a minimum the fsck check on boot should do 
> whatever CentOS does to repair the partition and proceed, perhaps with a 
> warning to syslog.
> 
> Thanks,
> David.
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 9:49 PM, David Kerr <da...@kerr.net 
> <mailto:da...@kerr.net>> wrote:
> 
>     To eliminate all variables, I have loaded the 0.6.2 image from
>     sourceforge and untar'd the extra sounds package onto the flash. I
>     have this running now and will see if it is stable.
> 
>     Examining my configuration, I recently added the growl.agi script
>     that someone posted here recently. Maybe that is causing problems...
>     so I have commented it out also.
> 
>     David
> 
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