On Monday 23 June 2003 02:34 pm, 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. > > 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!) :-) > I wonder if you couldn't somehow move it to /dev/nul. I dunno how to do it though.
> Thanks.
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