On 05-Jan-2001 Chuck Carson opined:
>
> I just had a very interesting time trying to install some updates. I
> have a
> cherry installed RH 6.2 box, installed with no GUI stuff what-so-ever.
> I
> applied all the updates from the update site except for any of the
> kernel
> updates. Several of them bombed because they were dependent upon X
> libraries
> and etc.. This was expected. However, once I rebooted it failed to boot
> completely arguing that the root file system was corrupt. I ran fsck
> manually and fixed many many errors (I was probably prompted 500 or
> more
> times by fsck). I finnally was at a prompt and had fsck checking all
> filesystems and everything seemed fine. Upon another reboot, I started
> getting ide write and seek errors spamming the screen. I also kept
> seeing
> ide0:reset messages. Normally I would think this to be a drive going
> bad but
> it happened immediately after applying these updates. Anyone know what
> update could have caused this? I did apply the glic update. All updates
> applied were the latest on valinux's site as of 4 days ago.
Perhaps the hardware is going bad and the coinciding with the updates
is...uhh...well...coincidence.
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