On 10/29/2009 11:24 AM, Mike Cloaked wrote:
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!)
Could also be power related, though if its a coincidence, it a *very*
unfortunate one.
It does make me wary about rebooting my machine now. B^) I think I'll
wait to see if you get any more responses.
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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Kevin J. Cummings
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