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Legacy Forums => Experienced User Forum => Topic started by: Serge Dutremble on May 23, 2002, 12:11:47 AM
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I am getting a "core dump" message when I try to execute a df command as root using SSH to my SME 5.1.2 server.
It seems that it is the only command that gives this. The server DOES NOT crash though.
I get the core file in the directory I am in at the time. Within the root, that core file is very large but dated on 28 March. The other core files are small (less than 100K).
I have 392MB RAM on that box.
I tried to replace the df file from another SME 5.1.2 server with no change in behavior.
Can anyone make any sense of this?
I think I will reload the server from scratch but I would like to hear if this has happened to others with an explanation if it is available.
Thanks.
Serge.
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Try df -h and see what that does. The windows equilivent of dumping core would be a General Protection Fault or a Blue Screen of Death. Either your drive capacity is very large or df is just being quirky.
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The problem is not in the switch I use with df.
Nothing works. No switch used make any difference.
I have one 8 GB HD for the system and one 60 GB HD for my data.
I had to reboot my server yesterday as it was not responding to any network request.
At the console, a login/password combination would only return you to the login prompt (clear screan and back to the prompt).
A CTRL-ALT-DEL would display:
Init: Cant't fork, Retrying
... this goes on forever.
A hard reset would naturally go through a long reboot due to the fact that the partitions were not unmounted properly.
No indication of what has happened in the logs. (I mean nothing!)
I think I will wipe all this out and reload the system from scratch.
Hasn't anyone seen something like this before?
Serge.