On 1 Dec 1999, Martyn Pearce wrote: > > Mario Olimpio de Menezes writes: > | Hi, > | > | I'm having a strange problem here (ok, maybe it's not a real > | problem, yet). Every day (at least for the last two), I'm having a SCSI > | disk error entry in my kern.log, occurring at 6:25 am. > | Yes, only at this exact time I'm having problems. > | I ran 45+ kernel compilations yesterday to test the machine and > | no error was triggered. BTW, I got 6m25s for 2 make bzImage running in > | parallel and about 6m3s for 1 make bzImage alone. > > Sounds suspiciously like some cronned process is tripping over a bad > point in the disk. umount all partitions on the disk, fsck them. If > it's your only disk, that'll require a floppy boot.
Hi, I forgot to say that I already did this: went to single mode (init 1), then ran: mount -t ext2 -r -o remount,ro /dev/sdaX /mount-point Then, e2fsck -c /dev/sdaX Well, no badblocks, no problem at all in the whole disk. Where/what should I look for now? Thanks, []s, Mario O.de Menezes "Many are the plans in a man's heart, but IPEN-CNEN/SP is the Lord's purpose that prevails" http://curiango.ipen.br/~mario Prov. 19.21 http://www.revistalinux.com.br