Topic: Dying hard drive?

[Trevor]

I've been trying to sych (using Dreamweaver) my local copy of a website to the SME (on the LAN) and it keeps failing to keep an FTP connection.

Here is an output from the messages log:

Dec 19 16:23:06 server1 PAM_pwdb[3987]: (ftp) session opened for user admin by (uid=0)
Dec 19 16:23:10 server1 proftpd[3987]: server1.XXXXXX.com (10.0.0.14[10.0.0.14]) - ProFTPD terminating (signal 11)
Dec 19 16:23:10 server1 proftpd[3987]: server1.XXXXXX.com (10.0.0.14[10.0.0.14]) - FTP session closed.

That's odd because I used Dreamweaver only 6 hours ago to synch up. What's more odd is that if I use WS_FTP Pro to open up an FTP session it works fine (WS_FTP Pro, not Dreamweaver). The only thing that raises the dying hard drive idea is that a few days ago Dreamweaver wanted to upload a few files that I knew were on the server. Well, they always were on the server. I certainly didn't delete them.  This leads me to believe that those files were corrupt and Dreamweaver was doing what it was supposed to do, namely: make sure what was on the local drive is also on the server.

Further research on the 'net tells me that the signal 11 is indicative of a serious problem. However, whether it's a PROFTPD problem or something wider isn't really clear.

Any ideas?

[Trevor]

Oh, 5.6 U6, and yes, I've determined that Dreamweaver is NOT the problem. Whatever problem there may be is on the server.

[Trevor]

Any ideas? I'd try fsck but I can't find an appropriate syntax to use for ext3.

[Trevor]

Such a huge response. I guess the user base is dead without Mitel.

[Graeme Fleming]

No, just wrong time of the year!

Reboot the system and hit Ctrl-X at the Mitel logo to get the prompt, press tab to get the list of kernels to load, load kernel listed with the 'single' option.

Once booted the system is in maintenance mode (init 1) - run fsck /

Once completed type exit to reboot.

HTH