Oh, great subject.
I have a Toshiba laptop. First, quite hard to install MDK 8.1. I
still have many RPMs that fail to install, maybe a corrupted CD, I'll see
later. But I have a Zip USB and I got suprised to see it working pretty
well. Well, till I shutdown and I have the exactly same problem, but I
use ext2.
About XFS, you won't need fsck anymore, since XFS is journalist
filesystem.
About USB hanging out.
I'm suspecting about devfs.
So, you can try it (I try later tonight):
Go to /etc/lilo.conf and change 'devfs=mount' by 'devfs=nomount'
execute lilo and reboot. See what happen.
But what is 'ctrl+alt+SysRq', I cannot find 'SysRq' in my
keyboard.
On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, J. Grant wrote:
> Hello,
>
> A rather odd error has started occuring on my now XFS empowered laptop
> mdk8.1.
>
> During the day 1 or 2 times the usb mouse stops working, and the usb
> ethernet. I have to force exiting and reboot to fix the error. No lost
> data.. yet..
>
> When I shutdown at the end of the day when the usb mouse has been
> working fine it gets stuck on items like
>
> "usb.c: unplug device" or so.. The only way i can get it to stop is to
> ctrl+alt+SysRq with Sync, Umount and reBoot. (sorry the errors are not
> exact, today I will write them down, as unfortunatly they are not in the
> log)
>
> Several times the Pannel in the bottom right of KDE looses icons and
> also my mozilla profile has been corrupted.
>
> I have not been able to find a way to fsck the disk without using
> another bootdisk. Is there a way to check it? before often ext2 went
> into check mode after a crash, but now I cant find a way to do it. even
> in single usermode etc
>
> $ ls /sbin/*xfs* reveals only 3 programs
>
> /sbin/fsck.xfs* /sbin/mkfs.xfs* /sbin/xfs_repair*
>
> And I have the problem that I cant fix it while I am mounted.
>
>
> Also I suspect that because I Unmount, Sync and reBoot its not getting
> recorded that the system crashed a little on shutdown..
>
>
> Any ideas or sugestions are welcome.
>
> JG
>
>
>
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Alan Wilter S. da Silva
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Laborat�rio de F�sica Biol�gica
Instituto de Biof�sica Carlos Chagas Filho
Universidade do Brasil/UFRJ
Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
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