Re: [cobalt-users] mysql and httpd is giving me errors

[Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 18 November 2002 02:01, Kim Schulz wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Nov 2002 01:48:53 +0000 (GMT)
> "E.B. Dreger" <eddy+public+spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > KS> From: Kim Schulz
> > KS> It is on a system where im pretty sure there is a ram or
> > KS> harddisk problem (I have notices weird chars in files I have
> > KS> never opened, and working things have started to break - no
> > KS> it is not hacked).
> >
> > I suspect power supply, overheating, or maybe RAM.  If it's a
> > RaQ4, it uses a CPU that gets warm and cranky fairly quickly.
>
> it is a raq3
>
> > KS> any idea on how to fix this problem.
> >
> > Isolate and replace faulty hardware.
>
> any idea on how?
1) replace the memory..
    a) if that don't fix it.
2) Pull the hard drive mount in on a Linux Dexktop
    and run test on it.
    b) if is the hard drive maybe some of the partitions "/home" are OK
        save what you can!

> > KS> I have restored /usr/share/mysql/* from a backup taken at at
> > KS> time where it was working.
> >
> > Now you're running older databases that soon will be corrupted,
> > too.
>
> yes! I want to be able to restore the system to another RaQ, but before
> I can do that I need to be able to get things out of the database etc.

A database dump does not take long!

Gerald
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