Re: I/O errors - logged?

["Karsten M. Self" <kmself@ix.netcom.com>]

on Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 12:42:25PM -0500, Caleb Chaplin (caleb@videotron.ca) wrote:
> I've recently installed woody in my home office and I'm trying to set it
> up as a general-purpose server to play and learn from.  It's running a
> number of services (apache, ftp, nfs, samba).
> 
> This morning I start the computer and find that running certain commands
> like apt, locate, whereis, etc produce an error similar to the
> following:
> 
> bash:/usr/bin/apt-get: Input/output error
> 
> Where can I find some additional info as to why this is occuring?  I'm
> guessing there are some log files somewhere that might give additional
> clues but I have no idea where they might be.

In general:

    # cd /var/log
    # find  . -type f -mtime -1 -print0 |
        xargs -0 grep -l 'Input/output error'

...which will show any files under /var/log modified within the past day
(-mtime -1) containing that error string.

I'd suspect system or kernel logs.

Peace.

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