The file corruption you see is probably caused by some filesystem corruption. When a filesystem is corrupted you may see a system hang when the file is accessed, although you should not. You should see some messages on the console or in syslogd.
-----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ranga Nathan Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2005 12:13 PM To: [email protected] Subject: A file corruption causing system hang (Linux guest) We are running SuSE 9 on a guest under z/VM 5.1. I have been getting a message from the cron daemon about a problem with the "updatedb" script. On investigation I found that this script file was corrupted at the end. My attempts to rsync and edit caused this guest to hang. I had to re-IPL it many times. When I deleted this file and tried to rsync it from another, it hung as I was typing. I found some file corruptions on the root file system (reiserfs). I can not believe that a file corruption could hang Linux. I have never seen this happen. Anyone had a situation like this? __________________________________________ Ranga Nathan / CSG Systems Programmer - Specialist; Technical Services; BAX Global Inc. Irvine-California Tel: 714-442-7591 Fax: 714-442-2840 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
