[H-GEN] Python doesn't love me anymore

[Sandra Mansell]

Sarah Walters wrote:
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> Jim Clark wrote:
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>>> I'm running mailman on my home server and it has been working fine. 
>>> About half an hour ago I got the first of several emails from mailman 
>>> complaining of a segmentation fault. So I tried restarting mailman 
>>> and was getting bus errors. Eventually I realised that it wasn't 
>>> mailman:
>>
>>
>> hardware failure perhaps...
>> Try running memtest, check logs for disk errors.
> 
> 
> 
> Yep :
> 
> Sep  6 14:36:05 tempus kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (2 
> retries left) LBA=1194183
> Sep  6 14:36:05 tempus kernel: ad0: DMA limited to UDMA33, non-ATA66 
> cable or device
> Sep  6 14:36:05 tempus kernel: ad1: DMA limited to UDMA33, non-ATA66 
> cable or device
> Sep  6 14:36:05 tempus kernel: ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA timed out
> 
> 
> I've seen this once before. Time for a new HDD. *sigh*

I'd try a new cable first. Much cheaper if it works. I've had hard 
drives I was sure were dead and just had a cable that had died. Or a 
motherboard IDE channel that had died (had more than one of those go on 
me!). Things that looks like a dying hard drive aren't always that. I'd 
test the hard drive in another machine with the manufacturer's testing 
suite before throwing it in the bin or returning it on warranty 
(depending on how new/old the drive is).

Sandra.
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