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Re: Netra X1 hardware flakiness



On May 10, 2010, at 10:35 11AM, Chris Ross wrote:

> 
> On May 10, 2010, at 10:03 AM, Robert Elz wrote:
>> What I see from your output is that the filesystem on the disk in question
>> is clearly very badly broken - I see no immediate evidence that the disk
>> itself has any issues.
> 
>  Right.  As you noted, there are a number of things that could've caused 
> that, but the filesystem was laid out reasonably, and wasn't brought online 
> without fsck'ing, or anything unusual.  And this is just the last error, 
> beyond all of the other errors that also seem filesystem related.  At least, 
> when things are loaded from the filesystem, they then "go bad".  Crashing 
> binaries, .so files that look okay in ls(1) output, but fail to be 
> loaded/seen by either the binary or ldd, etc.

I know nothing of modern Sparcs -- but have you ever done a suspend/resume?

                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb







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