RE: [cobalt-users] RAQ 550 - Updates didn't go so wel

[Sean Fay <sean@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>> Every thirty minutes on the hour and half hour, I get this message:
>>> 
>>> ------------------------
>>> Active Monitor has detected recent changes in the state of 
>>your server 
>>> appliance. For more details, please see the Active Monitor section of
>>the
>>> Server Desktop.
>>> 
>>> Summary of changes:
>>> 
>>> * There is a problem with disk integrity.
>>>   - The system is resynchronizing the information on the 
>>disks. Please 
>>> look at the Disk Integrity entry in Active Monitor for more
>>information.
>>>   - Drive self monitoring is performing normally on all installed
>>drives.
>>>   - DMA is performing normally.
>>> ------------------------
>>> 
>>> I'm not sure exactly what updates I did, but I had performed some
>>updates
>>> right before this happened. I know one was the latest kernel update
>>and
>>> the MySQL security update. I think there were two more but I don't
>>know
>>> where to look to see what packages I've installed when. Does anyone
>>have
>>> any ideas where I can look so I can figure out the bad package or why
>>this
>>> might be happening? The system is resynchronizing the information on
>>the
>>> disks over and over again.
>>> 
>>this looks like kernel updates C6 & C7 were applied.  if so 
>>then it needs to be rolled back.  i think instructions were 
>>posted here about this.  for sure it is in the cobalt forums.
>>
>>> Thanks for the help,
>>> 
>>> Sean
>>> 
>
>This is what fixed mine with the same problem.
>
>
>cd /tmp
>wget
>ftp://ftp.cobalt.sun.com/pub/products/raq550/RPMS/kernel-2.4.16C12_V-1.i
>386.rpm
>wget
>ftp://ftp.cobalt.sun.com/pub/products/raq550/RPMS/kernel-headers-2.4.16C
>12_V-1.i386.rpm
>wget
>ftp://ftp.cobalt.sun.com/pub/products/raq550/RPMS/bwmgmt-1.0.0_2.4.16C12
>_V-1.i386.rpm
>rpm --install --force kernel-2.4.16C12_V-1.i386.rpm
>rpm --install --force kernel-headers-2.4.16C12_V-1.i386.rpm
>rpm --install --force bwmgmt-1.0.0_2.4.16C12_V-1.i386.rpm
>/sbin/reboot
>
>After it rebooted, it started the sync again and told me that the 2nd
>drive was dead. I rebooted again via the GUI and it started syncing from
>about 80% and has been fine ever since. It has also taken all of the
>updates since then.
>

Yeah, both kernel updates C6 & C7 were applied. I'm using your fix. Thanks for help. I'll let you know how it goes. :)

- Sean