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Testimonials
LERT rescues box
Eric Engelhard, June 7, 2001
My box is up. A big thanks to Foo Lim and LERT!
Details:
My box is a Mandrake 7.1 with a SCSI HD. I killed a logrotate churn and
the box failed on the subsequent boot. I used the Mandrake 7.1 install
disk as a rescue disk, apparently was able to load the aic7xxx
driver, but could not mount sda#. modprobe was
available, but insmod could not be run (honest).
Bottom line: we could not rescue with the mandrake disk. Fortunately,
Foo brought a Redhat 6.2 disk, which allowed him to boot and mount.
As expected, the problem resided in /var/log (which resides
in the root partition with a default install, yes I know better, I plead
temporary insanity). The mail and news subdirectories
were ENORMOUSLY full. We spent most of the LERT call watching rm
work. Afterwards, the reboot went fine.
Lessons learned:
- Apply the logrotate churn fix.
- Never ever again place
/var in the root partition.
- Use
/proc/interrupts and dmesg, they are friends.
insmod, modprobe, and autoprobe
perform different tasks.
- Keep a Redhat 6.2 install CD handy.
Again, much thanks to Foo, Pete, Mark, ME, Rod, Jeff, and the whole LERT
team.
LUGOD
has consistently proven itself as not only a fun club, but
also a valuable resource.
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