Hi people,

OK I've tried swapping out hardware. I found an identical server, known to be 
working, and moved the RAID controller and the five drives over to that. In a 
stroke that meant different memory, cpu, power supply and motherboard. The 
result though stays the same :-( Kernel panic within a few seconds of reaching 
the login prompt. Interactive boot with no services running seems to be fine.

Has anyone on this list come across a similar issue? This is new to me so I'd 
appreciate any words of wisdom.

Regards

Huw

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Huw Wyn Jones 
Systems Administrator 
Coleg Meirion Dwyfor 

huw.jones AT meirion-dwyfor.ac DOT uk 


----- Original Message -----
From: "Huw Wyn Jones" <huw.jones AT meirion-dwyfor.ac DOT uk>
To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" <backuppc-users 
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Sent: Tuesday, 26 January, 2010 16:30:47 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, 
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Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] ext3 filesystem limitations

>> Any updates to packages recently that you can think of?

>> Max

None. Our network is like Fort Knox so once we have a box running reliably we 
tend to leave it alone. I'm pretty new to sysadmin'ing so I'm inclined to 
'go-with-the-flow' at the moment.

I also suspected hardware initially. However the RAID5 controller reports that 
all the disks are healthy, and (once the services have been switched off) it 
runs very reliably despite having rsync/scp copying files off it for most of 
the day. Similarly the processor is running at 20% load for the past 6 hours 
doing file transfers. :-/

Still, I hear you all saying hardware! Best dig out the test disks once I've 
secured a copy of the data.

Thanks for your input

Huw

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