Re: Stability?

On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 23:24:21 +0100 (CET)
Mark Kettenis <[email protected]> wrote:

> > I thought I'd stress it more by compiling a kernel.  It puked on
> > untarring/ungzipping the source files.  Guess I won't do that.  
> 
> Puked in what sense?

In doing "sudo tar -xzf src.tar.gz" in /usr, the machine ground away
for awhile and then became unuseable.  I was ssh'd into it from another
machine, and had several xterms running simultaneously.  If I tried
"l" [which I have aliased as ls -laFT], it would output 'abort trap'.

If I entered the complete command "ls -laFT" I could list the contents
of a directory.  "top" produced an abort trap, "df" didn't.  Trying any
additional ssh sessions were unsuccessful.  I tried to log in at the
console [serial connected laptop], and that was unsuccessful.

On reboot, as it began to start the network daemons, there were a bunch
of abort traps and some interesting, weird outputs [along the lines
of "/etc/rc   drwxrwxrwx" blah blah (not in front of the machine right
now)] that indicates to me that somehow a directory listing was written
over a file in /etc/rc?

I thought at first it was a bad HD, but I've reproduced it on both the
9GB and the 18GB HD--it does exactly the same thing on both.

I'll install the snapshot from 11 Jan tonight and see how that goes.

-- 
Jim Smith <[email protected]>