Control: severity -1 important Control: tag -1 moreinfo On Tue, 2017-06-27 at 22:15 -0700, jmolina@swoncology.net wrote: > Package: src:linux > Version: 4.9.30-2 > Severity: normal > > Please see attached kernel messages collected from the /var/log/messages > file post-reboot. Have you seen multiple crashes with a warning logged referring to the same file (fs/dcache.c)? Or do you see different filenames or messages every time? > This is at least the third time this has happened in the last couple of > months. Each and every event occured just after the system had just > started an rsync backup from the local disks to a local USB3 drive. The > backup job is nightly, so this only happens once every 1-2 months on > average. > > The system is a Dell Optiplex 3020 Haswell with 3x 1TB SATA drives > (terribly slow) in a mdadm RAID5. The Dell BIOS is up to date. > > The problem first manifested itself after upgrading from old stable (Deb > 8) to unstable maybe five-six months ago. Prior to that, the system had > been very stable. "Optiplex 3020" appears to refer to two desktop models that are both physically small and possibly not designed for this number of drives. Are you sure that there is sufficient air flow to cool the hardware (CPU, motherboard, drives)? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Experience is directly proportional to the value of equipment destroyed. - Carolyn Scheppner
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