This morning I rebooted my backend machine (LinHES 6.03) - I reboot about once a month to clean up any memory leak issues. When it was coming up the filesystem check failed. I booted to an ArchLinux live cd and ran e2fsck -p /dev/sda1 and e2fsck -p /dev/sda3. Both ran clean.

I have rebooted again and still have a failure. Short of a reinstall, what should I try next?

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nbdwt73

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My System

After a reinstall this morning (actually an "upgrade" from the original 6.03 disk) I discovered something very strange. It turns out that I had forgotten that several weeks ago I changed out my remote to a new streamzap which I installed using the LinHES configuration menu. Everything was fine until my reboot mentioned above. Apparently that script for streamzap corrupted my /dev/sda1 which wasn't noticed until the reboot. Before anybody (including me...) doubts that, I ran several tests to prove it.

After a relatively easy upgrade process this morning (luckily I have backups) I decided to figure out what happened so I put the system back to its original state as of yesterday, and everything worked perfectly except my remote. That is when I remembered I had installed a new one. I ran the script again, rebooted and again had the filesystem check failure. I tried everything to recover without another reinstall to no avail. This time I copied my /etc and a few other folders, reinstalled and tried it again - same thing.

I have since reinstalled again - this time I enabled the streamzap manually with no problems. I will dig into the script when I have some time this weekend.

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nbdwt73

very odd I added a streamzap to my system while installing 6.02 and had no problems. Now that I think about it I have tried several times to install 6.03 from disk and I have failed every time I just installed 6.02 and upgraded. I wonder if it's related?

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My System

Interesting... I've tested a StreamZap w/ no issues. One of the things jams noted in working on R7, is a bug w/ StreamZap and the kernel which, is suppose to be resolved in 2.6.37rc3. I wonder if this is related and it is cause by a combination of certain hardware?

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cesman

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