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Date:      Fri, 21 Mar 2008 23:14:27 -0400
From:      "Tamouh H." <hakmi@rogers.com>
To:        "'Andy Christianson'" <achristianson@orases.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: Console Random Text
Message-ID:  <060501c88bca$d6cbbc30$6900a8c0@tamouh>
In-Reply-To: <776B93361B7BEE4FAD9E720FFBC746B6BDDB74@34093-EVS4C2.exchange.rackspace.com>
References:  <776B93361B7BEE4FAD9E720FFBC746B6BDDB74@34093-EVS4C2.exchange.rackspace.com>

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org=20
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of=20
> Andy Christianson
> Sent: March 21, 2008 7:28 PM
> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Console Random Text
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> Hello everyone,
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> I am having a very strange problem. My sever stopped=20
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> At the time,
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> a co-worker said he was importing a MySQL database from a USB=20
> drive mounted as ext2fs.
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> I went back to check on the console, and it was scrolling=20
> *EXTREMELY* quickly with
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> was too fast to read).=20
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> I could not switch to another virtual console. It would not=20
> respond to any keyboard input.
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> Oddly enough, the machine was still responding to ICMP.
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> Does anyone have ANY clues as to what this could be? This is=20
> a server that an entire
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> Company runs on, so it's really important that I find out=20
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> -Andy
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If it looks like it is online, but no services respond then it could be =
a bad backplane or corrupted RAID. From personal experience.

Tamouh





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