[WBEL-users] more corruption (I think)

[Johnny Hughes]

On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 12:09 -0700, Jim Bodkikns (Dakotacom) wrote:
>    In the last 72 hours three WBEL systems have failed. All 
> installed/updated at approximately the same time. Two at customer sites and 
> one in the office. The customer systems are identical systems from PFMicro. 
> (P4's with SCSI). The system in house is a Supermicro dual Xeon with SCSI.
> 
>    Initially I assumed corruption of the filesystem given that all of these 
> systems had been in use and functioning properly for a period of time. (With 
> many reboot cycles which occur daily). And first a customer failure, 
> followed by an inhouse failure and another customer failure - within 72 
> hours.
> 
>    The only messages seen involve the failure to set the hostname - followed 
> by boot failure, in part due to the hostname failure. (Sendmail locks for 
> example). This just suddenly occured. It is shaking my confidence in WBEL.
> 
>    Has anyone had similar experiences? (Either with hostname issues or 
> filesystems).
> 
> Jim
> 
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