Greetings all, I'm going through my own kind of "March Madness" here!
In addition to my 700's cryobay unexplained shutdown and backup air compressor having a leak (taking down the 400 temporarily), I have a Dell running RH 5.3 on my 500 which appears to be having issues. It appears to boot up normally, with no errors when looking at the details. Log in screen, comes up and can enter user accounts (haven't tried them all) or root. Seems like if I log into root and open a terminal, the system seems stable and just sits there happily. But once I try to do stuff, whether through desktop applications, or via the terminal things go south in a hurry.
Most applications will fail to launch, saying there a input/output errors.
Some commands work within the terminal (when I can open it), but others - like shutdown give the error No such file or directory.
I can log out of root, but can't restart or shutdown the computer from it. Usually, when logging out however I won't get back to the welcome screen, but just the black screen with a bunch of errors. (end_request: i/o error, dev sda , sector xxxxxxxx)
Obviously, I must be having disk problems. I've never had issues with any of my RedHat systems before, while in the old day, the Sun's fsck seemed to fixed problems when they occurred. Any suggestions on trying to fix them?
Thanks,
Neal
Neal J Stolowich, Ph.D.
NMR Facilities Manager
Department of Chemistry
University of Louisville
Louisville, Kentucky 40292
Office: (502) 852-7894 Fax: (502) 852-8149
Received on Thu Mar 15 2012 - 05:56:26 MST