Re: [cobalt-users] admin server not running possibly due to adm_access problem

[Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 9:56 PM -0500 1/14/02, flash22@xxxxxxx wrote:


> Yup, IO error generally means a physical error, or trying to use non
> existant hardware, i suspect you have a failing disk drive//


I've figured out a temporary fix for the problem. I changed the admin 
httpd.conf file to use a different file for the access log. As soon 
as I did that, I was able to start the admin server right up, so the 
problem was definitely the bad file /home/var/log/httpd/adm_access

This is an acceptable temporary fix. However, I'm still worried about 
that file I can't read or even list. Is this a problem with a corrupt 
file system? a bad sector on the disk? a bad disk controller? 
something else? How should I go about diagnosing the underlying 
problem? Nowe that the admin server is running again it tells me that 
RAID and disk usage or both fine. The one error it reports is that 
the server desktop is not running. Of course that's now out of date. 
Suggestions for my next step?
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