* Igoramus6286 peremptorily fired off this memo:
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> Here's another one. Today a Gutsy server locked up.
>
> I had this happen a while ago on another server where the disk was
> bad, and there were bad sectors in the swap file. The data in bad
> sectors confused the kernel (no surprise) and it started doing
> oom-killer. Replacing the hard drive cured the problem.
>
> So I want to look at HP Proliant SmartArray disks, but unfortunately,
> they are behind hardware SCSI. So smartmontools does not support them,
> per Bruce Allen.
>
> So what do I do? How can I diagnoze these disks?
>
> output from /var/log/messages[color=green]
>>
>> Both operating systems have many diagnostic tools. Everyone who cares
>> about system maintenance should try to learn to use them.[/color][/color]

Yeah, I had audacious (audio player) crash on me. Segfault.

So I run "strace audacious", and see a reference to a config file for
it. I delete it, and audadcious comes up fine and creates a new config
file.

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