I had one reply from
"Alam, Sim" <Sim.Alam_at_Central.tased.edu.au>
The disk stuff was a red herring. A machine on a different subnet but
plugged in to the same routing switch was had the wrong network ip.
The clue was in the timing and the fact that it was only after network
services were started that the hang happend.
on Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 07:56:52PM +0800, Bevan Broun <bevanb_at_ee.uwa.edu.au> wrote:
>
> I have and alpha server 1000 running du 4.0f. A few hours ago it
> stopped responding to keyboard and network and had to be shutdown, now
> the system wont boot to multi user, it hangs at a different point each
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> time while starting up services. I can boot to single user OK.
>
> The system has a raid disk set which has reported soft errors like:
>
> The hard disk at channel 1, target 0 had a soft error.
>
> but not always on the same disk but always soft errors.
>
> I have booted to single user mode and ran a parity check on the raid
> logical drives, no inconsistancys were found.
>
> When the machine hangs it sound like it's trying to read from the
> disks (I can here the sound but there is no light for the activity)
>
> Im about to redo the parity check and add the flag for a list of bad
> blocks.
>
> The /var/adm/messages file had binary chars in it.
>
> Any ideas please
>
>
> BB
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> Computer Systems Officer fax (08) 9380 1065
> Dept. Electrical and Electronic Engineering
> University of Western Australia rm. G70
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Bevan Broun ph (08) 9380 1587
Computer Systems Officer fax (08) 9380 1065
Dept. Electrical and Electronic Engineering
University of Western Australia rm. G70
Received on Tue Jul 25 2000 - 01:42:48 NZST