Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Saturday 30 July 2011 11:17:52 Dale wrote:
What could have caused this? Could it be a file system problem? I
don't think it is a physical failure since it is working now after
giving it a fresh start. I just don't get how this could have caused a
kernel panic. This is plain weird.
One possibility is that, having now written to almost every location on the
disk, its controller has marked some faulty blocks that used to contain code
in the disk subsystem. If it was reading damaged data, there's no surprise
in anything that happened next!
Would love to hear some thoughts on what caused this problem given the
fix.
That's mine :-)
(And it's not far off what I suggested to you before: that the lightning
strike had damaged your hardware.)
It could be that it was some bad bocks. It wasn't lightning tho. It
was just a plain power failure where my UPS failed. The relay just
didn't act quick enough that time I guess. Still weird that it caused a
kernel panic.
Dale
:-) :-)
