Question Server crashed after postfix connect

[wlhrtr]

Hi guys,

I am new to the Forum. I am posting because a very weird thing happened today.

I noticed a few minutes ago that my server was not reachable at all.
Force restarted it via the server console.

After that i checked the logs and found some very weird stuff.

Postfix log:


Syslog:



Has anybody any clue what's going on here

Yours, Peter

 

[IgorG]

I would test the health of the hardware.

 

[Bitpalast]

Yes, these characters are most definitely caused by a sudden system crash. Check the disks, but also lookout for temperature warnings in /var/log/messages or other errors related to devices, e.g. a RAID controller etc. It's almost certainly a hardware issue.

 

[mow]

When, after a crash wich prevented syncing of the root disk, fsck finds a file occupies more blocks than it should, it sets the file length to the sum of the occupied blocks. That means that the information how much the last block was filled is lost. So the next append will resume at the next block, leaving the space from the last actual data position to the end of its block filled with zeroes.