This guy has been having debilitating problems with this server for weeks if 
not months.

I think it's a mission critical server not just for the fan list that I know 
him from but in a for-profit business.  The fact that he's trying to solve it 
himself makes me strongly suspect that the business is mortally 
undercaptialized, but if anyone has useful advice, he no doubt would 
appreciate it.  (Especially if it isn't "find $5,000 and buy a new server, 
then find $10,000 and hire the services a certified, experienced Red Hat 
admin ... namely me.)

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On Wednesday 2004-04-28 19:38, Nick Arnett wrote:
> We're running on a somewhat crippled server because a few of its
> essential binaries are seg faulting, suggesting that we're building up
> to another disk failure, perhaps.  It's been up and down today as I've
> been trying to fix the broken parts.
>
> If anybody here has any insight or suggestions on how to deal with a
> system in which grep, chmod and ln are all seg faulting, I'd love to
> hear them.  I never realized how essential grep is to Linux.  And
> without chmod, I can copy grep from elsewhere, but then can't make it
> executable!
>
> Sadly, there's no "reinstall everything" that I can come up with, and
> individual re-installs seem to be failing.  This system is running RH 9,
> a/k/a Fedora.
>
> BTW, it's running now because I can boot from a system CD, then chroot
> to our normal system and start everything manually.  Ugh.
>
> Nick

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