On 7/2/05, Alexander Dalloz <ad+lists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Am Sa, den 02.07.2005 schrieb Dotan Cohen um 16:02: > > > Thanks, Alex. I've since had to restart the machine twice. After the > > first time I ran ps axuwwww | grep Z. At that time I had only one > > zombie show up in top: > > USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME > COMMAND > > root 3571 0.0 0.0 0 0 tty4 Z< 16:37 0:00 [X] > <defunct> > > 500 3802 0.0 0.0 364 108 tty6 R+ 16:45 0:00 grep > Z > > So X is dead - but on tty4? > > > As soon as the machine slows down again, I'll run top, and in the > > event of zombies, I'll run ps. > > > > I don't think that the problem is anacron, as Andy suggested, as the > > machine was up all night. I ussually don't turn the computer off at > > night. > > > > Dotan Cohen > > Rereading your initial posting I suspect like Andy a hardware problem, > presumably with your harddrive. Run > > smartctl -t long /dev/<your drive> > > and when it finished inspect the results with > > smartctl -a /dev/<your drive> > > [ <your drive> seems to be hdb ] > > I suggest you do this in runlevel 3 (so without X) and doing nothing > with the PC during the selftest time. Check too your cables. Often > enough a damaged cable or one with bad contact to the motherboard is > cause of trouble. > > Alexander > > > -- > Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG http://pgp.mit.edu 0xB366A773 > legal statement: http://www.uni-x.org/legal.html > Fedora Core 2 GNU/Linux on Athlon with kernel 2.6.11-1.35_FC2smp > Serendipity 16:40:32 up 6 days, 23:32, load average: 0.14, 0.13, 0.09 > > > BodyID:97205227.2.n.logpart (stored separately) > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > Thank you for your advise. I do not seem to have a command smartctl. Even man smartctl gives me nothing. I went googling and came to the comclusion that I simply have to install it, but I thought that I'd ask here first. Without a man page I don't want to go messing things up. If I do need to install it, to where should it be installed? /usr/bin? Thanks. Dotan Cohen http://lyricslist.com/lyrics/artist_albums/395/papa_roach.php Papa Roach Song Lyrics
