Re: [cobalt-users] hard trouble

[flash22@xxxxxxx]

On Mon, 21 May 2001, Francois Thomas wrote:
> Something really strange has just happened to my RaQ3... I tried to
> compile the latest stable version of ht:/dig (a search tool). I was
> logged as root. The "./configure" showed no error, so I tried to "make".
> During compilation, the server rebooted. And now, it freezes on the
> "Booting..." message on the LCD.

I'd be suspecting hardware after a crash during a compile myself...like a
simm that needs reseating, or a dead fan....

[the hang on reboot may just be a disk that needs to be fsck'd manually
because of the crash]

Got a serial cable?

> As far as I know, the box was safe (logcheck/portsentry showed nothing
> strange except "normal" attacks; the box was online but not in

unless it was booby trapped (unlikely)

> production, i.e. referenced nowhere; no telnet, no anonymous FTP). I did
> not make any change to apache, kernel, etc..

regardless, rebooting implies the kernel panicked , nothing you do from
user space should do that unless it was something truely evil...

> And I feel really sad !

heh...read back into the archives a bit for info on booting via a serial
console and making the machine fix th disk, or seeing what usefull things
it says on boot....

gsh