Re: 2.6.19-rc1, timebomb?

[Chris Largret <largret@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 01:30:44 -0400
Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net> wrote:

> Greetings;
> 
> I just arrived home a few hours ago, and my wife said the outside lights 
> hadn't worked for the last 2 days.
> 
> I come in to check, the this machine, which runs some heyu scripts to do 
> this, was powered down.  So I powered it back up and it had to e2fsk 
> everything.  I have a ups with a fresh battery which passes the tests just 
> fine.
> 
> The only thing in the logs is a single line about eth0 being down:
> Oct 17 05:31:11 coyote kernel: eth0: link down.
> Oct 19 20:37:49 coyote syslogd 1.4.1: restart.
> 
> Uptime when this occurred was about 9 days.  Was this a known problem?

Out of curiosity, did you check the UPS logs? The low- (and mid- ?)
range ones I've played with have logs as well as the ability to tell
the computer when there is a power problem. I'd check those logs and
also look in the system BIOS for a way to power the computer back on
when power returns. If it was powered off, I don't believe it would be
kernel-related.

I could always be wrong, but from my own experiences kernel problems
result in a system that is on but not operational.

-- 
Chris Largret <http://www.largret.com>
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