I had a problem. On my RaqXTR, I noticed the load average at 60 and raising. YIKES, I've never heard a load avg that high. I tried a 'shutdown -r now' and it said it was going down for reboot now but it didn't. Then I tried a 'ps -aux' and didn't see anything unusual. I tried a 'top' and didn't see anything unusual. I do not understand what is happening. I tried killing processes. Still, the load average kept climbing. It was climbing about 2 every minute. The problem became worse. When the load average was at 130 (really!), I tried a '/etc/rc.d/init.d/halt reboot' -- then all the services ceased to work. I could still ping the machine, though. And, after 10 minutes, I could still ping the machine, but it had not ever rebooted. The lcd panel said it was rebooting, but it would never complete. So then, I shutdown the machine by holding the power button for 5 seconds, then turned it back on. When it came back up, telnet will not work, FTP will not work and e-mail will not work. The web admin interface did, thank goodness. When I look at active monitor, it says that RAID is doing this: "Server data is being duplicated to the backup hard drive." When I tried to go to the control panel area of web admin and turn on Telnet (which was marked as off - it gave this error: "Cannot read /etc/inetd.conf, /etc/inetd.conf is locked" RAID rebuild finished successfully. inetd.conf file never unlocked. I rebooted the machine from the web admin panel. Worked fine, except the inetd.conf file is still locked (or so it said). I had to get to the machine physically, and attach a labtop to it to get a command prompt. When I looked in the /etc folder, there was no inetd.conf file at all! There was a inetd.conf.master, which I copied over and then telnet worked again. However, there were several corrupted mail files, several corrupted MySQL database tables and DNS files were a mess. I had to rebuild these areas. So messy. What happened? How can I prevent it from happening again? Dave. _______________________________________________ cobalt-developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.cobalt.com/mailman/listinfo/cobalt-developers
