On Mon, 25 Nov 2013, Mauricio Tavares wrote: > On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 10:25 AM, Michael Hennebry > <hennebry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Sun, 24 Nov 2013, John R Pierce wrote: >> >>> On 11/24/2013 9:45 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: >>>> CentOS 6.4 died on me again. >>> >>> only time that has EVER happened to me, on dozens and dozens of systems, >>> has been when there's been a serious hardware problem. >> >> I really do not know whether to hope you are correct. >> On one hand a new computer would be expensive. >> On the other, if it's something else, >> my diagnostic skills are clearly not up to the task. >> > Keep an eagle eye on dmesg and the logs. If you can, bring > machine down and run memtest86 for a few hours (say, when you go to I've run the memory test that comes with the Fedora 13 install disk. My computer's memory got a clean bill of health. To me, neither dmesg nor Xorg.0.log says anything interesting. > bed or is out partying). Also, *sometimes* the messages log might say > something interesting. But I would start with dmesg. Thank you for the reminder. It does. Nov 25 09:47:22 localhost abrtd: Sending an email... Nov 25 09:47:22 localhost abrtd: Email was sent to: root@localhost Nov 25 09:47:24 localhost abrtd: Duplicate: UUID Nov 25 09:47:24 localhost abrtd: DUP_OF_DIR: /var/spool/abrt/ccpp-2013-11-25-09:46:10-7871 Nov 25 09:47:24 localhost abrtd: Corrupted or bad directory '/var/spool/abrt/ccpp-2013-11-25-09:46:55-8008', deleting Nov 25 09:47:26 localhost abrtd: Directory 'ccpp-2013-11-25-09:47:25-8243' creation detected Nov 25 09:47:26 localhost abrt[8445]: Saved core dump of pid 8243 (/usr/bin/kdeinit4) to /var/spool/abrt/ccpp-2013-11-25-09:47:25-8243 (78938112 bytes) Nov 25 09:47:52 localhost abrtd: Sending an email... Nov 25 09:47:52 localhost abrtd: Email was sent to: root@localhost Nov 25 09:47:53 localhost abrtd: Duplicate: UUID Nov 25 09:47:53 localhost abrtd: DUP_OF_DIR: /var/spool/abrt/ccpp-2013-11-25-09:46:10-7871 Nov 25 09:47:53 localhost abrtd: Corrupted or bad directory '/var/spool/abrt/ccpp-2013-11-25-09:47:25-8243', deleting Nov 25 10:04:58 localhost ntpd[2077]: time reset +0.288044 s I ran this for F in /dev/sd??* ; do ( tune2fs -l $F ; echo $F ) | grep -e dev -e UUID ; done | tee /tmp/tune2fs.txt to check for duplicate UUIDs. I used sort and my eyeballs to check. There weren't any. The hard drive in use is newer than the motherboard, but older than the video card. I zapped the first video card installing the new hard drive. The second one seemed to die on its own. > There are some HD tests you can make but honestly I can't pull them > off the fuzzy mist that is my head. Hardware or software raid? No raid. -- Michael hennebry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx "On Monday, I'm gonna have to tell my kindergarten class, whom I teach not to run with scissors, that my fiance ran me through with a broadsword." -- Lily _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos