June 21, 201115 yr I'm running b7 and when I do a parity check the system hangs up. I've left a telnet window open with the syslog running and nothing shows up on the screen. I have no control over the keyboard either. I can leave the system on and it's fine. We can watch movies and have not problem with it freezing up. Only during a parity check does it hang. I've done it several times and it hangs between 20-30 min in. I've also done file system checks on all the disks and they come back fine. I've attached a syslog of a recent reboot.
June 25, 201115 yr Author Moved back to b6 to see if it would work...and it didn't. I'm now testing the memory. When I ran a parity check it the system froze again but this time the caps locks and scroll lock light were flashing.
June 25, 201115 yr Were your drives already spun-up before invoking the parity check? If not, it might be an indication of a bad or underpowered Power Supply for the system you have. Hard drives use the most power when they initially spin-up. Of course it could be something else too.
June 26, 201115 yr Author All the drives were spun up at the time. After removing a stick of memory and reseating everything in b6 I rebuilt parity (I marked all drives as new). Yesterday went back to b7 and ran a parity check. It completed successfully. I might take the other match pair or memory and put it back in and see if it was because something wasn't seated right.
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