Re: silo problem?

[stappers@stappers.nl (Geert Stappers)]

On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 04:24:44PM +0200, Admar Schoonen wrote:
> Hi
> 
> A weird thing happened today. This morning, my Sun Ultra 5, running
> debian unstable, booted fine like it always did. I upgraded the system
> since it was a week old. A few hours later I had to reboot since a
> process was misbehaving and couldn't be killed - not even with kill
> -KILL. When the open boot had passed, it suddenly said 'The file just
> loaded does not appear to be executable'. Booting with 'boot disk0:1'
> gave the same message (while I am sure that was the right boot disk).
> 
> I decided to do a netboot since I had a woody netboot image laying
> around somewhere. I mounted the root disk, chrooted into it, downloaded
> silo 1.4.8-1 (the latest in unstable - same as in testing), and
> reinstalled it. After that, the system booted again like nothing
> happened.
> 
> I am sure I didn't upgrade my kernel today and I'm quite sure silo
> wasn't upgraded either, since silo in testing is the same as silo in
> unstable. Is there somebody here who can tell me what was going on?

Try to find out which program did report
 "The file just load does not appear to be executable"

> 
> Best regards
> 
> Admar

Geert Stappers