Hey gang- Ive got my gateway at work, which is a beater 233mhz box running rh 7.x i think its dying... or at a min. something is wrong. I logged in the other day on the console, and hit a `w` and it was pretty slow... i logged in on another virt. console and it ran `top` and it never quite loaded up all the way... i left it alone. Yesterday, i tried to ssh to it, i got an `error 11` and couldnt connect. So i went up to look at it today, and there was what looked like a kernel panic... it was something bad. couldn't do anything from ctrl c to switch virtual consoles to reseting the terminal. I finally had to reboot it... when it booted up, it never got past `mounting USB filesystem` I have no USB devices (that are plugged in externally, its from 1997 or so, so i dont think there is much chance for internal usb devices like a floppy) If i booted into single user mode, i could ctrl-c when it was trying to load the usb file system... then it dropped me into a run level 1 sh# prompt as root. The file system was read only, i couldn't make any changes to modules.conf (to take out anything usb) or do much at all. I tried to `init 3` or start other services by hand... no go. in the end, i dropped in a replacement box... id like to rescue the other box somehow, is it as all my monitoring software setup and just some other things setup (bind for internal use with an internal zone et al) Anyone have any suggestions on how to try and bring that box backup online? I was thinking of removing all non-essential drives and peripherals. Thanks for any tips. duncan _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list