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Hi All,
Any help with the problem below greatly
appreciated!
I am attempting to install RH 8.0 on a development
server. I first tried
to install it on an AMD Duron system running at
900Mhz with 512MB
pf PC133 memory and two 60GB ATA
drives.
I configured a two disk mirror using ext3 and
journaling with /boot as one
partition and / as another partition. I installed
this as a server but also installed
all packages on the 3 CDs.
The installation seemed to go fine. I then used
up2date to download the latest
patches/errata to the system. This too seemed to go
fine. I rebooted the system
a few days later after moving the server and saw
segmentation faults on system
commands such as "more". For example you could "cat
/etc/termcap" but
"more /etc/termcap" gives a segmentation error. The
difference between the two
commands being that cat is static linked and more
is dynamic.
I thought perhaps I might have bad memory so I
halted the system, replaced memory,
and tried to reboot. This time however the system
would not come up at all, claiming
it was unable to mount /proc and then went off into
never never land spitting
unreadable messages out until I hit reset. The
system would never boot again.
I double checked that the memory was fine. I
thought perhaps I had a flakey
motherboard so I did the exact same installation on
a 1GHZ Duron with another
512MB and two different ATA drives. Long story
short, same results on this
server as the 1rst after a few days.
I did some searching around in Bugzilla and saw a
data corruption issue with
ext3. While it's not exactly my configuration ( I
used Disk Druid to create ext3
partitioans and then build a RAID device from them)
I thought it might be
related. Sooooo....
I have a third server, an AMD 1.2GHz Athalon with
different 512MB PC 133 memory
in it and a single 80GB ATA drive. I used ext2
filesystems and created a /boot and
a "/" partition. After installation, I installed
all the patches/errata RPMs. So far it
reboots after 3 days, however, I am starting to
notice a lot of defunct processes left
in the zombie state.
Has anyone seen this type of behavior and if so is
there any remedy?
TIA,
Mike
Mike McMullen
CIO - Express Processing Center 7637 Fair Oaks Blvd Suite #2 Carmichael, CA 95608 Tel: 1-866-515-4421 or 916-944-7790 ext. 2 Fax: 1-866-843-8795 or 916-944-8422 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: www.loanprocessing.net "From chaos comes true genius..." |
