RE: Input/output error

2003-08-20 Thread Leseney Thomas
> > > Running any command that requires write access on the disk (touch > > /tmp/foo for instance) results in " Input/output error". > What's "dmesg" say at that point? If you can't run dmesg, look at the > "messages" log after you reboot to see if the kernel logged any errors > prior to the

RE: Input/output error

2003-08-20 Thread Leseney Thomas
As I do not have any physical access to the server, I touched /forcefsck and reboot the server. Surprinsingly, I didn't find any fsck related logs in the different log files (boot.log, dmesg, messages.log). The fsck must have been performed since the /forcefsck has been removed. Do you know if th

Re: Input/output error

2003-08-18 Thread Gordon Messmer
Leseney Thomas wrote: Running any command that requires write access on the disk (touch /tmp/foo for instance) results in " Input/output error". What's "dmesg" say at that point? If you can't run dmesg, look at the "messages" log after you reboot to see if the kernel logged any errors prior to t

Re: Input/output error

2003-08-18 Thread Sean Estabrooks
On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 16:55:26 +0200 Leseney Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I rent a dedicated server (running RH 8.0) and every now and then, I > get this error on bash command line. > > Running any command that requires write access on the disk (touch > /tmp/foo for instance) res