On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 18:17, James Sparenberg wrote: > On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 14:34, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > > For those of you who were following/helping me with this thread, I've made > > some progress - 1 step forward, 2 steps back. <grin> > > > > Kmail has been crashing quite a bit since I upgraded to 9.1, full lockups > > requiring hard resets. So...I figured it was probably something in > > /home/darklord/Mail. I went into Mail and started going thru each folder, > > deleting files as I went. I got to /Mail/sent-mail/cur and encountered a > > really odd problem, one I've not seen before. From KDE, right-clicking on the > > cur folder, and using delete OR from a shell, "rm -f -r cur" causes a very > > spontaneous reboot. No warnings, no errors, no messages at all - just goes to > > a black screen, and a normal startup, just as if you were turning the comp. > > on for the first time that day. Suspiciously like when I run "updatedb". > > So...I go to /etc/updatedb.conf and exclude my /home directory. Voila! > > "updatedb" now runs and completes with no problems. However, this still > > leaves me with a directory in /home/darklord/Mail/cur that can't be deleted. > > > Yes it can... I had this in var one time on a box. Boot from disk 1 in > rescue mode and have it mount your partitions... then from it go in and > delete this dir. This took care of this for me. > > James
Opps forgot one thing.... It's possible.. that there is a bad sector on the drive and Mail was/is right on the spot. If this is the case... leave it... It's a really crude way of denying working files access to a bad sector. James > > > > I finally did a "mv Mail .Mail-old", reran Kmail and so far its been behaving. > > > > Anyone have any ideas on how to get rid of a rogue directory? Obviously there > > is something in it that Linux abhors (as do I!) :-) > > > > Thanks. > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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