On 10/29/2009 11:24 AM, Mike Cloaked wrote: > Yes I rebooted both machines yesterday morning shortly after the updates > were in. They appeared to run fine until the first failed catastrophically > last night. The second failed whilst I was on my way to work - my wife > phoned me to tell me that the screen had suddenly filled with coloured bars > and that there were weird messages on the screen - the machines are now > unbootable. It does sounds like a catastrophic disk failure but I was > wondering if it had anything to do with them running with ext4 file systems > - on / and /opt though /boot was ext3 as needed for f11 install with ext4 > for the rest. > > I am at a total loss as this takes out both operational desktops at home - > it is of course possible that it is not connected with any updates - but two > machines going out within 12 hours seems a very unfortunate coincidence - > last night I was convinced it was an unlucky disk failure - but I have not > had time to investigate. However I thought it was worth asking in case > anyone else who is running f11, and ran the same updates may have hit the > analogous problem - if so I am quite worried as I have several other > machines running f11 elsewhere (like on my desk at work!) Could also be power related, though if its a coincidence, it a *very* unfortunate one. It does make me wary about rebooting my machine now. B^) I think I'll wait to see if you get any more responses. > All are fully up to date f11 - but with different hardware. The two that > failed were both Dell 530S less than 2 years old. -- Kevin J. Cummings kjchome@xxxxxxx cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Registered Linux User #1232 (http://counter.li.org) -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
