Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
On 10/29/2009 05:14 AM, Mike Cloaked wrote:
>
> I have had an unprecented pair of events last night and this morning -
> two
> machines (both Dell Inspiron 530s desktops) have died completely (
> unbootable) - having been running on f11 very successfully for some time.
> I
> had no reason to suspect the hardware at all and both were running fine
> from
> new a couple of years ago - but I am now wondering if this has anything
> to
> do with updates that came in on 28th October. The new kernel and a number
> of
> other updates were installed yesterday morning on both machines. Both
> were
> also using ext4 files systems.
Did you reboot after installing the new kernels?
I have installed the new updates yesterday as well, but I have not yet
reboot to use the new kernels on either my x86_64 laptop, nor an i586
desktop that I use only for testing. Both are still running. Possibly
because I have not yet rebooted. Neither have any ext4 filesystems on
them.
Just a data point for you to compare to.
Yes I rebooted both machines yesterday morning shortly after the updates
were in. They appeared to run fine until the first failed catastrophically
last night. The second failed whilst I was on my way to work - my wife
phoned me to tell me that the screen had suddenly filled with coloured bars
and that there were weird messages on the screen - the machines are now
unbootable. It does sounds like a catastrophic disk failure but I was
wondering if it had anything to do with them running with ext4 file systems
- on / and /opt though /boot was ext3 as needed for f11 install with ext4
for the rest.
I am at a total loss as this takes out both operational desktops at home -
it is of course possible that it is not connected with any updates - but two
machines going out within 12 hours seems a very unfortunate coincidence -
last night I was convinced it was an unlucky disk failure - but I have not
had time to investigate. However I thought it was worth asking in case
anyone else who is running f11, and ran the same updates may have hit the
analogous problem - if so I am quite worried as I have several other
machines running f11 elsewhere (like on my desk at work!)
All are fully up to date f11 - but with different hardware. The two that
failed were both Dell 530S less than 2 years old.
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