[wplug] crashing servers and filesystem errors.

AbhiA7 at netscape.net AbhiA7 at netscape.net
Mon Aug 11 18:01:20 EDT 2003


so today i was typing at my terminal and vim wouldnt save. the file server seemed to have frozen. after a reboot and a few fsck's later i had it up. during the fsck process a rather large number of errors were found. i just said yes and let it goto town trying to fix stuff. after a while i got things back up and i noticed that one of the drives (not the one with root or /var but one that contained home directories) was almost full. 

after inspecting things a bit i found that one of the users had an ~/.xsessionerrors file that was almost 7 gigs. in size. i tried to delete it but when i did the following started pouring out to the console:

Aug 11 17:14:21 fserver kernel: EXT2-fs error (device sd(8,33)): ext2_free_blocks: bit already cleared for block 374467

this has been going on for a while, and i suspect it will continue for a while yet. (here a while is defined as almost 40 minutes). now whenever i try to su to the user with the huge file it hangs. when i try to list the contents of that users directory it hangs. i assume that by deleting that file i triggered a bunch of error messages which need to be displayed before the rm command can finish. i also assume that until this command finishes, i cannot really do anything else in his directory. 

the more disturbing thing is that this file was still hanging around and it had errors in it. is there anyway to scan the rest of the files and see if there are other problems like the one currently being displayed? backups from yesterday exsist, so all is not lost. i just want to know if i need to restore anything.

thanks.







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