On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 16:51, Lorne wrote: > On Friday 13 June 2003 01:17 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > > On Friday 13 June 2003 04:09 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > > > slocate.db.tmp, size 1.6mb. I renamed it, will run the command again. > > > Wish me luck! :-) > > > > Well, (hate replying to myself - sound psycho) but... > > > > Ran updatedb as root (single user mode), and it recreated that file, made > > it as far as 1.8 megs then black screen, and a spontaneous reboot. > > > > I have /var on a separate partition, 8.1 gigs, only 2.1 percent full. > > > > Any chance something to do with security (msec? quotas?) could be doing me > > in? > > > > Otherwise, lost and confused. > > I wonder if it is a bad hard drive, and or controller. No errors during > install? For it to die like that it just seems/smells hardware based. Are you > running hdparm and doing anything to soup up to UDMA or anything? What about > when you install. regular or expert install? Do you click the option on hard > drives that activates LBA or UDMA or something. I'm sorry I can't remember > what that option is.
Interesting point... I wonder. Dark, if you run say, makewhatis do you have the same problem? Since the two are similar in intensity and action it might help in finding the common thread. If it doesn't die... I'd go back to urpme urpmi .... James
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