problems with server dying.

["Marc-Adrian Napoli" <marcadrian@cia.com.au>]

Hi all, as you can guess from the subject i have a server (debian 2.0,
pentium 200, 500mb ram, 30 gig or so) that is dying on me at random times
early in the morning!!

(quite annoying).

I've gathered the following from the logs:

Jun  5 06:43:42 godzilla kernel: EXT2-fs error (device 16:00): ext2_readdir:
bad entry in directory #126
28: rec_len % 4 != 0 - offset=0, inode=3326860705, rec_len=34410,
name_len=31708
Jun  5 06:43:42 godzilla kernel: Remounting filesystem read-only
Jun  5 06:43:42 godzilla kernel: EXT2-fs error (device 16:00):
ext2_find_entry: bad entry in directory #
12628: rec_len % 4 != 0 - offset=0, inode=3326860705, rec_len=34410,
name_len=31708
Jun  5 06:43:42 godzilla kernel: Remounting filesystem read-only
Jun  5 07:02:50 godzilla kernel: hdc: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady
SeekComplete DataRequest Error
 }
Jun  5 07:02:50 godzilla kernel: hdc: read_intr: error=0x40
 UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=4512574, sec
tor=4512574
Jun  5 07:02:50 godzilla kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00, sector
4512574
Jun  5 07:03:00 godzilla kernel: hdc: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
Jun  5 07:03:01 godzilla kernel: ide1: reset: success
Jun  5 07:03:08 godzilla kernel: hdc: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady
SeekComplete DataRequest Error
 }
Jun  5 07:03:08 godzilla kernel: hdc: read_intr: error=0x40
 UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=4512720, sec
tor=4512720
Jun  5 07:03:08 godzilla kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00, sector
4512720
Jun  5 07:03:19 godzilla kernel: hdc: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
Jun  5 07:03:21 godzilla kernel: ide1: reset: success
Jun  5 07:03:31 godzilla kernel: hdc: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
Jun  5 07:03:35 godzilla kernel: ide1: reset: success
Jun  5 07:03:43 godzilla kernel: hdc: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady
SeekComplete DataRequest Error
 }
Jun  5 07:03:43 godzilla kernel: hdc: read_intr: error=0x01
 AddrMarkNotFound }, LBAsect=4512574, secto
r=4512574

When the techie on call at that time put a monitor on the box he saw
"Couldn't get free page..." all the way down the screen and couldn't get a
prompt. (Forcing us to hard reboot the system).

The only two things that have been added to the computer recently have been:
a backup drive (running off an adaptec scsi card) that does a tar backup at
about 2 in the morning, and the new version of zeus. (we upgraded to
3.3.6a).

For the meantime i'm going to downgrade zeus, but surely someone has come
across something similar in the past?

Regards,

Marc-Adrian Napoli
Network Administrator
Connect Infobahn Australia
+61 2 9281 1750