Re: smartd.conf corrupted by ... something

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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?

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   Roberto Ragusa    mail at robertoragusa.it

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