Segmentation Fault
Saturday, April 29th, 2006 at 11:55 pm
If you’ve visited this site within the past week or so then you’ve probably noticed a few outages. Last weekend my server crashed. I thought it was an error with the OS but then, after I installed Fedora Core 5 instead of Mandrake 10, it crashed again with similar errors. I ran memory checks on it and all appears to be well in that department. So I threw in an old, small hard drive and did a base install of the OS. So far everything is performing as expected so I’m betting it’s the hard drive. My friend Tim thinks it might be a bad sector in the swap partition and right now I think that’s a real possibility.
So, if the thing functions like normal for a while and I get no more segmentation fault errors then I’m going to go buy a new hard drive and get my original server back up again. It pains me to think of how much time this has cost me; luckily though I always keep good backups so restoration is only a matter of spending the time to do it, not trying to recreate things from scratch.
I hope to have the old server back up again within a week or so; this time it’ll be running Fedora Core 5 (like this test server is now). I think Fedora has a higher likelyhood of being around for a while, especially in light of some of the recent changes in the Mandriva corporation.
FACT: Chuck Norris can build a snowman out of rain.
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