Arrgh - nujoma:~# memtest su: /usr/sbin/memtest: Input/output error nujoma:~# exit logout nujoma:~> /usr/sbin/memtest /usr/sbin/memtest: Input/output error.
It's clearly pretty badly f&*(^cked, whether by malice or natural illness. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew J Perrin - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 269 Hamilton Hall, CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Miguel Griffa wrote: > did u try memtest? > I had really wierd behaviour and memory was _totally_ broken... I still > wonder how the hell it managed to boot... > replacing memory did the magic > > At 11:49 a.m. 15/08/01 -0400, Andrew Perrin wrote: > >Folks- > > > >I just logged in (from work) to my home machine to copy a file I > >needed. It's behaving very weirdly, and I'd love some advice as to whether > >you think I've been cracked or it's likely just a hardware issue. I'd > >strongly prefer not to shutdown remotely, but will do so rather than > >waiting until I get home tonight if y'all think that's what's appropriate. > > > >The machine is a (rather old) Pentium 200, 92MB RAM, with lots of stuff > >plugged in(nVidia graphics, Adaptec SCSI running a CD-ROM and a Zip drive, > >and four IDE hard drives of various sizes). It's running deiban 2.2r3, > >kernel 2.2.19pre17 with all current patches. > > > >Here's what's happening: > >1.) There's nobody doing anything on the machine, and yet I get the > >following load averages: > > 11:43am up 6 days, 22:06, 6 users, load average: 1.42, 1.50, 1.31 > > > >2.) top segfaults: > >nujoma:~> top > >Segmentation fault > > > >3.) man doesn't work: > >nujoma:~> man ps > >/usr/bin/man: Input/output error. > > > >4.) scp fails: > >nujoma:~> scp paychecks.sdc geingob: > >scp: error in loading shared libraries: libz.so.1: cannot open shared > >object file: Permission denied > > > >5.) Can't write my / filesystem (/home): > >nujoma:~> touch foo > >touch: foo: Read-only file system > > > >However, mount shows it as rw: > >nujoma:~> mount > >/dev/hdb3 on / type ext2 (rw,errors=remount-ro,errors=remount-ro) > >proc on /proc type proc (rw) > >devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) > >/dev/hdd1 on /src2 type vfat (rw,umask=0000) > >/dev/hdd3 on /share type ext2 (rw) > >/dev/hdb1 on /rosa type vfat (rw,umask=0000) > >/dev/hdc1 on /theodor type vfat (rw,umask=0000) > >/dev/hda3 on /karl type ntfs (rw,umask=0000) > >AFS on /afs type afs (rw) > >//jacobi/cousins on /mnt/cousins type smbfs (0) > > > >6.) shutdown -r also segfaulted, so I can't reboot remotely. > > > >I don't see anything suspicious in the logs, with the exception of the > >following that I seem to get at least once a day: > > > >Aug 14 17:38:43 nujoma /sbin/rpc.statd[257]: gethostbyname error for > >^X<F7><FF> > ><BF>^X<F7><FF><BF>^Y<F7><FF><BF>^Y<F7><FF><BF>^Z<F7><FF><BF>^Z<F7><FF><BF>^[<F7> > ><FF><BF>^[<F7><FF><BF>%8x%8x%8x%8x%8x%8x%8x%8x%8x%236x%n%137x%n%10x%n%192x%n\220 > >\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220 > >\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220 > >\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220 > >\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220 > >\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220 > >\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220 > >\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220 > >\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220 > >\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220 > >\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220 > >\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220 > >Aug 14 17:38:43 nujoma > ><C7>^F/bin<C7>F^D/shA0<C0>\210F^G\211v^L\215V^P\215N^L\21 > >1<F3><B0>^K<CD>\200<B0>^A<CD>\200<E8>\177<FF><FF><FF> > > > >Thanks for any advice. > > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Andrew J Perrin - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin > > Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill > > 269 Hamilton Hall, CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA > > > > > > > >-- > >To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
