On 4/6/06, Stephen Woodbridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Simon, > > Have you checked your 3ware logs, are you getting any disk errors? Which > controller are you running? Have you run fsck on all the partitions? Not > sure any of these will help as Lennart said, it does sound like > something hardware is start to fail. > > -Steve > > Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 07:02:48PM +1200, Simon wrote: > > > >>Hi There, We have a mail server (postfix>amavis>dbmail) running debian > >>sarge (2.6.8-9-em64t-p4-smp) running dual xeons with a tyan > >>motherboard and 3ware hardware raid5. Everything has been running fine > >>up to now, but in the last week it has frozen twice. Completly stuck > >>needing a hard reboot to restart (ctl-alt-del dosnt work). Here is a > >>screenshot of the stuck screen (no ping, nothing at this point): > >> > >>http://gremin.orcon.net.nz/console.jpg > >> > >>Would someone be able to take a look and give me a clue here? > > > > > > I wonder what autoremove_wake_function is... > > > > journal_commit_transaction looks related to one of the journaling > > filesystems, specifically ext3 I believe. > > > > Can you do a shift+pgup to see more of the output? How about setting up > > a serial console or remote logging so you can capture the full error > > messages? > > > > Of course it really sounds like either you upgraded something recently > > that is broken, or the hardware is starting to fail.
We did have a disk spit itself out of the 3ware hw raid a couple of weeks ago, the spare kicked in and was all OK. After a re-start all seemed fine again... but now seems like too much of a coincidence to ignore. Replace the drive?? - im guessing yes :) Unfort i cant scroll up as the box was really suck.. nothing but a hw reset worked. Simon
