Hi! <warning: long, and also kind of a rant> After (at least I hoped so) sorting out my recent harddisk-troubles I dismounted my /mp3-partition (which is the only one I had not fsck´ed yet because it´s just to big and fsck takes approx. 2.5 hours), and started fsck´ing it. Of course whilst being logged on from work and therefore rather too far from the console. Well, shortly after that the machine stopped doing TCP and UDP, but happily answered ICMP echo-requests. Strange. Now coming home the screen is frozen (as of 12:45 telling from the syslog-tail which I´ve left running in the morning), mouse won´t move, X isn´t to be killed. But still it answers pings from another machine on the LAN. Well, since the machine seemed quite dead despite of that, and neither of the 3-finger-salutes (ctrl-alt-backspace and you-know-what) works, in fact, not even the caps-lock-led reacts, I rebooted the hard way. This is what I found in the syslog: Jul 2 13:11:54 WatchZwerg sshd[7589]: debug1: tvp!=NULL kid 0 mili 10 Jul 2 13:12:00 WatchZwerg last message repeated 37 times Jul 2 13:12:04 WatchZwerg kernel: general protection: 0000 Jul 2 13:12:04 WatchZwerg kernel: CPU: 0 Jul 2 13:12:05 WatchZwerg sshd[7589]: debug1: tvp!=NULL kid 0 mili 10 and then, nothing. fsck didn´t turn up anything, and a quick glance with memtest86 was also fruitless. Right now it´s compiling a kernel and being a really, really well-behaved beast of burden. I´ll be throwing serial-console-support in after the compile finishes, just to have it handy for the next lockup. Any other ideas/thoughts/rants for me? cheers, &rw -- -- This .sig brought to you by the -- Department of Redundancy Department. ----
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