I opened the case, reseated the drive cables, crossed my fingers and the system came up. It seems strangely fragile (it hung in the middle of writing a DVD for backup) but right now it's stable. Thanks for all the suggestions. I don't know which one worked but I'm back from the dead.
/Bob Cahn
On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 19:31:08 -0400 "Robert Cahn" robertscahn@gmail.com wrote:
It seems strangely fragile
My system sometimes refuses to boot, and I've finally learned that the BIOS somehow gets its disk boot order reset so it is trying to boot off the wrong disk.
Took me forever to discover that the first time, but I'm finally used to recognizing the symptoms now and can put it back the way it was. I've considered just installing grub on both disks, but decided I'd like to know when it happens.
Anyone know if smolt tries to dig out bios info? Maybe smolt is doing this to me (it does seem to happen around once a month :-).
Tom Horsley wrote:
Anyone know if smolt tries to dig out bios info? Maybe smolt is doing this to me (it does seem to happen around once a month :-).
Does running it manually cause the system to freeze? If so please file a bug report. If not you can leave smolt out as a factor.
Rahul
On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 05:26:16 +0530 Rahul Sundaram sundaram@fedoraproject.org wrote:
Does running it manually cause the system to freeze? If so please file a bug report. If not you can leave smolt out as a factor.
I haven't ever stopped to dig into the scripts and find out how to run it manually (I actually doubt it is smolt - something like a weak motherboard battery seems more likely :-).
Tom Horsley wrote:
On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 05:26:16 +0530 Rahul Sundaram sundaram@fedoraproject.org wrote:
Does running it manually cause the system to freeze? If so please file a bug report. If not you can leave smolt out as a factor.
I haven't ever stopped to dig into the scripts and find out how to run it manually (I actually doubt it is smolt - something like a weak motherboard battery seems more likely :-).
"Digging in the scripts is trivial.
# rpm -ql smolt | grep cron # cat /etc/cron.d/smolt
20 1 1 * * root /usr/bin/smoltSendProfile -c > /dev/null 2>&1
If you want to run it manually just run this command.
#smoltSendProfile
Rahul