two major failures after yesterday updates - anyone else

Mike Cloaked mike.cloaked at gmail.com
Thu Oct 29 15:24:15 UTC 2009




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.
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