[CLUG] dodgy debian boot

[Donncha O Caoimh]

Dermot Canniffe wrote:
> 
> Donncha O Caoimh (donncha.ocaoimh at tradesignals.com):
> > It's a server.. do you have nfs and smb shares off it? Are they being
> > used by other busy servers? Sometimes smb gets stuck when an NT box goes
> > down..
> 
> Had samba for some inexplicable reason, and also it was nfs sharing it's own
> cd-rom <shrug> Bear in mind someone else has been admining this since I built
> it, for ...oh.... 5 months...

That could be a reason for filesystems being busy at shutdown. I
wouldn't share a CDROM, simply because of the effect accessing a CD has
on any system.. imagine ten users looking at it!

> 
> >
> > Squid brought the system down? Were there files created in /lost+found/
> > and did you look at them?
> 
> Nope. I think the problem may be with WebMin (which I didn't install). There
> seems to be some startup and shutdown scripts that shouldn't be there.
> Now I have to remember how to fuck around with Startup and Shutdown scripts
> <yuck>. What does K mean anyway ;-)

The K stands for "Kill", it's just a symlink to the files in  the init
directory. Startup files have S prepended. If it's a Red Hat box then
use the "chkconfig" command, Debian has a similar command but I don't
remember what it is.

> 
> I had some trouble with nfs on my Debian and
> > RH boxes at home and "kudzu" now seg faults, probably because a bit of
> > it or some config file got thrown into lost+found..
> 
> I should remember what kudzu is but don't... can you touch -a my memory there
> please?

As Ruairi pointed out, it's a hardware detection prog. Doesn't seem to
do much most of the time though, even when it says it's configuring XXX
hardware. *shrug*

Donncha.