December 12, 201213 yr I've been running 4.7 for a long while now, years it seems, but recently decided it was time to add a new hard drive to the system. I've got a WD EARX 2TB drive and started the process of preclearing it last night. After it starts running the first stage after a while it seems to lock up the system. The screen is black, there is no response from the keyboard and the Hard Drive indicator light on the case doesn't appear to be flashing any, as if there is no HD activity. I remember back when I first built the system that preclear takes a long while to run through, but I don't ever recall not being able to walk up to the system and check the status of the preclear as it ran. Would a reboot of the system be in order and give me access to a syslog? Or does the preclear process go through a stage where I won't be able to check it's status?
December 12, 201213 yr I've been running 4.7 for a long while now, years it seems, but recently decided it was time to add a new hard drive to the system. I've got a WD EARX 2TB drive and started the process of preclearing it last night. After it starts running the first stage after a while it seems to lock up the system. The screen is black, there is no response from the keyboard and the Hard Drive indicator light on the case doesn't appear to be flashing any, as if there is no HD activity. I remember back when I first built the system that preclear takes a long while to run through, but I don't ever recall not being able to walk up to the system and check the status of the preclear as it ran. Would a reboot of the system be in order and give me access to a syslog? Or does the preclear process go through a stage where I won't be able to check it's status? Sounds more like your server has crashed. If you are unable to telnet to it, and unable to access the web-management console, and there is no disk activity, something is not right. The syslog will be gone when you reboot, as it is kept in an in-memory file-system. The actual cause of your crash could be almost anything from a power supply unable to handle the additional load of the drive, to a defective drive, to errors filling the syslog and using all available memory, to defective RAM, to running out of RAM due to other processes using it all. Just about the only thing it might not be is the "mouse" Time to reboot. Joe L.
December 12, 201213 yr Author I've been running 4.7 for a long while now, years it seems, but recently decided it was time to add a new hard drive to the system. I've got a WD EARX 2TB drive and started the process of preclearing it last night. After it starts running the first stage after a while it seems to lock up the system. The screen is black, there is no response from the keyboard and the Hard Drive indicator light on the case doesn't appear to be flashing any, as if there is no HD activity. I remember back when I first built the system that preclear takes a long while to run through, but I don't ever recall not being able to walk up to the system and check the status of the preclear as it ran. Would a reboot of the system be in order and give me access to a syslog? Or does the preclear process go through a stage where I won't be able to check it's status? Sounds more like your server has crashed. If you are unable to telnet to it, and unable to access the web-management console, and there is no disk activity, something is not right. The syslog will be gone when you reboot, as it is kept in an in-memory file-system. The actual cause of your crash could be almost anything from a power supply unable to handle the additional load of the drive, to a defective drive, to errors filling the syslog and using all available memory, to defective RAM, to running out of RAM due to other processes using it all. Just about the only thing it might not be is the "mouse" Time to reboot. Joe L. Thanks. I can ping the system, just can't telnet to it and can't bring it up in a browser. I've been planning on rebuilding the server with new components and maybe now is the time. Maybe I'll start with a Memtest and then move onto checking the power supply.
December 17, 201213 yr Author Replaced the motherboard, CPU and memory. Preclear ran through with no problems.
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