corrupt data - caused by lm-sensors?

Robert Treat writes:

> On Fri, 2003-07-11 at 01:58, Zeno R.R. Davatz wrote:
>> Hi List
>>
>> Out of some reason our data of our postgresql database has been corrupted. When we try to connect to the database we get:
>>
>> psql: ERROR: _mdfd_getrelnfd: cannot open relation pg_type_oid_index:
>> No such file or directory
>>
>> REINDEX does not work. We get the same error.
>>
>> pgfsck gives us: wrong blockseize.
>>
>> We are using postgresql 7.3.3-1 (debian).
>>
>
> uh oh, sounds like you might have some flakey hardware.
>
> try vacuumdb template1 and if that gets you in you might want to do a
> pg_dump and then do some hardware testing.
Thanks for the hint. In the meantime we could get access to some data with
pgfsck 0.14 - great tool, great maintainer, very dedicated (Tom Lane says
pgfsck does not exist).

What I forgot to mention:
I installed lm-sensors (cvs) version and force-loaded some drivers. Then
sensors-detect gave me a segmentation fault. Do you think that could have
caused the data-corruption?

Thanks for feedback.

Zeno