Hello
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 05:22:11PM +0000, Ged Haywood wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 02:58:17PM +0000, Ged Haywood wrote:
> > > > and started it with "strace /usr/bin/cron" it hung at:
> > > > connect(4, {sin_family=AF_UNIX, path="/dev/log"}, 16) = 0
> > > > send(4, "<78>Mar 8 11:25:40 /usr/sbin/cr"..., 70, 0) = ? ERESTARTSYS
> >
> > > What other disc devices do you have in the system?
> > A 3ware RAID controller (for /dev/sda) and a 3COM 3c509 network
> > interface.
>
> Er, disc devices. :) So is /dev/log on a SCSI device? Is a write to
> the SCSI device failing? If so what, how and why?
No, while ssh and postfix were stuck I could even download and install
the Debian strace package which involved writes on at least two
partitions!
> > > Have you tried to use USB1.1 instead of USB2.0?
> > Not possible, the server acts as backup server and needs the speed to
> > get finished before dawn.
>
> Yes it's possible, you just won't be able to do everything you want to
> do with 1.1 - but it might tell you something if you try it. Given
If there's really no other hint then we would try it...
> the experimental nature of USB under Linux, and the problems you've
> been having, are you using any other backup methods? Until it's a lot
...
We use it on a couple of servers and until now had no problems. Of
course only with Maxtor build-in usb harddrives and NEC chipsets.
Horribly experiences with some other combinations of hardware :-)
(And of course, we get a backup status mail every day and a seperate
one with a big fat warning in case of a failure. We use rsync to
make local copies and "tar -g" to incremental copy them on the discs)
> > > Have you run 'fsck' on your root partition recently?
> > On my '/'? No, last time was 2003-09-10.
> Under the circumstances, I'm a little surprised by that. What's the
> filesystem type?
It's ext3. But why surprised, it's a server running in production, it
has not been booted for a while :) (except for a quick kernel upgrade).
But do you really think that the fs-state of the root partition could be
the cause? The copying goes from the big /var to the external
/mnt/backup partition.
> Ged.
bye,
-christian-
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