Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > > On 10/29/2009 05:14 AM, Mike Cloaked wrote: >> >> I have had an unprecented pair of events last night and this morning - >> two >> machines (both Dell Inspiron 530s desktops) have died completely ( >> unbootable) - having been running on f11 very successfully for some time. >> I >> had no reason to suspect the hardware at all and both were running fine >> from >> new a couple of years ago - but I am now wondering if this has anything >> to >> do with updates that came in on 28th October. The new kernel and a number >> of >> other updates were installed yesterday morning on both machines. Both >> were >> also using ext4 files systems. > > Did you reboot after installing the new kernels? > > I have installed the new updates yesterday as well, but I have not yet > reboot to use the new kernels on either my x86_64 laptop, nor an i586 > desktop that I use only for testing. Both are still running. Possibly > because I have not yet rebooted. Neither have any ext4 filesystems on > them. > > Just a data point for you to compare to. > > 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!) All are fully up to date f11 - but with different hardware. The two that failed were both Dell 530S less than 2 years old. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/two-major-failures-after-yesterday-updates---anyone-else-tp26109441p26115173.html Sent from the Fedora List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
