Re: pear-shaped behaviour after enough make reloads

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.net>]

On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 11:43:17AM +0100, Dale Amon wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 11:53:22PM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> >  i had to kill off processes manually one by one, umount the partitions
> >  manually, poweroff, and i chose to boot with enforcing=0 init 1 in
> >  order to safely run ldconfig and make relabel.
> > 
> >  i find this all a bit odd, i haven't a clue what's causing it.
> 
> Is this particular machine and kernel presently stable 
> when running the same kernel and no selinux? 

 as a general rule, yes: i have used it to watch tv and dvds...

 now that you mention it, the hard drive _did_ have a head-crash
 last week when i was doing a 4.3gbyte disk-image...


> I have
> seen very strange things happen over the years when
> hardware is failing or marginal, power supply voltages
> are on the edge... 

 yes, so have i, but having bought eight identical cheap-and-nasty
 machines ($125ea) where one of the PSUs blew so loud it took out its
 internal fuse, the plug fuse, the 4-way-block fuse _and_ the
 mains trip, i didn't want to admit that anything was wrong.

> Worth checking before you ruin Stephen Smalley's sleep 
> and fill it with nightmares of kernel race conditions
> and random byte squashers. :-)
 
 *lol*.

 oh, okay then, i'll try running it without selinux for a while,
 see what happens.

 l.


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