brian wrote: > 2.6.30.5-43.fc11.i586 #1 SMP i686 athlon i386 > > I'm trying to diagnose/fix repeated hangups and found the following in > /var/log/messages: > > smartd[2217]: Configuration file /etc/smartd.conf has fatal syntax errors. > > So, I opened the file and found this weirdness: > > -- snip -- > 1418644 /sbin/lvm.static > 3810 /sbin/ifup > 841 /sbin/setsysfont > 5207 /sbin/start_udev > 17921 /sbin/dhclient-script > 1124096 /sbin/fsck.ext3 > 366 /sbin/mpath_wait > 912584 /sbin/multipath.static > ... > 5423 /usr/lib/python2.5/encodings/__init__.py > 4376 /usr/lib/python2.5/encodings/__init__.pyc > 14337 /usr/lib/python2.5/encodings/aliases.py > 9100 /usr/lib/python2.5/encodings/aliases.pyc > 1005 /usr/lib/python2.5/encodings/utf_8.py > 1950 /usr/lib/python2.5/encodi > -- snip -- > > First of all, I can see where my machine must have locked up again, in > the middle of writing that last path. > > Secondly, what the heck is this?! This is nothing like what *should* be > in here. What's been vandalising this file? There is a > smartd.conf.RPMNEW file there, btw. > > Can anyone suggest what's happened here? The machine is unstable. One of the symptoms of system instability is having files with corrupted content. Not easy to understand the cause: could be hardware related (RAM, power supply, CPU) or software related (but I don't think you are using experimental filesystems or drivers). What about a memtest run? -- Roberto Ragusa mail at robertoragusa.it -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
