Re: disk errors in 5.4

From: Magnus (no_at_spam.com)
Date: 07/03/05 

Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2005 19:44:13 +0200

"Skeleton Man" <invalid@guestwho.com> skrev i melding
news:1120182448.858947@donna.bmts.com...
> >More than likely you have a hardware issue, which means you will have to
>>troubleshoot accordingly. The harddisk isn't possible without a subsystem,
>>which usually is the motherboard, your issue might also be related to bad
>>memory, bad bios, bad cabling, bad psu, and maybe more. There is no magic
>>software available that pinpoint the failing part of your system, you will
>>have to work it out yourself, which you do by trial and error. But as
>>said,
>>more than likely, your issue is not with the software, but rather
>>hardware.
>>My suggestion is that you suspect hardware problems, and that you work
>>systematically to resolve your problems.
>
> Checked the power supply under load with a dmm.. all the rails are within
> spec
> (brand new 350W psu).. and it's not a power hungy setup (Celeron 700Mhz,
> 1 hard
> disk, 1 cd-rom)..
>
> I checked the cabling by swapping out ide connectors with severel
> different
> cables, some brand new from the packet, no difference..
> I tried disconnecting cd-rom, no difference. I tried both the original and
> replacement hard drives on both primary and secondary channels, no
> difference..
>
> I tried swapping the ram with known good memory.. again no difference...
>
> I am almost certain the issue is software, because a clean install of 5.4
> boots
> like a charm, but after adding the packages, everything segfaults/core
> dumps (I
> got core dumps from acpi.ko, ssh, inetd, grep, and a list of others)
>

Makes me wonder why didn't reveal more information to begin with, as you
seem to have more indications than what you first shared with us.

Good to hear that you have it pinned down.

- Magnus