fedora 8 hacked?

[dwight at supercomputer.org]

On Saturday 26 April 2008 10:26:37 am Roger Heflin wrote:
> tom lee wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 9:20 AM, Roger Heflin 
<rogerheflin at gmail.com> wrote:
...
> I have seen the RO remount a number of times on lots of different
> HW/kernel/dist combinations, it is can be any number of issues,
> from a real hardware issue, a hardware driver issue, a filesystem
> driver issue, a bios issue, a main kernel issue, ... it has a lot
> of causes.

You are absolutely correct, and I think you've gotten to the heart of 
the issue.

And to reiterate, dmesg is your friend when this happens.

Personally, I'd be a little suspicious of the Adaptec raid, as I've 
had issues with their fake-raid chips which are so common.

I'd also add that I've become a big fan of running on a RO root 
filesystem, though that's intentionally set up and configured to do 
so during startup. RH/CentOS/Fedora all have the hooks built in to 
do this, but one has to understand the issues associated with it, 
and I don't recommend it for everyone.

   -dwight-