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Re: Serious problem, something corrupt, help!



On Mon, 03 Nov 2003 at 15:40 GMT, Anthony R. J. Ball penned:
> 
>   My system has suddenly started puking... it is running right now,
>   but limping... I have had similar problems before, and I want to
>   track this down.
> 
>   grep dies with 'Aborted' su and mount die with a segfault
> 
>   Where should I start looking to track this? I changed nothing on the
>   system before this happened... I've been too busy to have screwed it
>   up.

Last time I had something similar happen (common, simple commands dying
with screwy errors), it turned out that my disk drive was dying.  Within
a reboot or two, the disk was completely unreadable.  So you may want
to back up everything you hold dear and run fsck to see what it thinks
...

> 
> last few lines of strace on grep pipe([3, 4])
> = 0 fork()                                  = 18062 --- SIGCHLD (Child
> exited) @ 0 (0) --- read(3, "\376", 1)                      = 1 brk(0)
> = 0x805aeb3 brk(0x807beb3)                          = 0x807beb3 brk(0)
> = 0x807beb3 brk(0x807c000)                          = 0x807c000
> rt_sigprocmask(SIG_UNBLOCK, [ABRT], NULL, 8) = 0 getpid()
> = 18061 kill(18061, SIGABRT)                    = 0 --- SIGABRT
> (Aborted) @ 0 (0) --- +++ killed by SIGABRT +++
> 
> 
> last 10 lines of strace on su fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644,
> st_size=3875, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 3875, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 3, 0)
> = 0x40016000 _llseek(3, 3875, [3875], SEEK_SET)      = 0
> munmap(0x40016000, 3875)                = 0 close(3)
> = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {SIG_IGN}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0 time(NULL)
> = 1067873964 getuid32()                              = 50039 ---
> SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) --- +++ killed by SIGSEGV +++
> 
> 


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