Lawson wrote:
> Oh, you don't actually have to push the keys yourself. A cron or at job
> can do it for you, or a shutdown script. :-)
Nothing there either
> > [root@Peter /]# e2fsck -p /dev/hda9
> > e2fsck: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/hda9
> > (null):
>
> Why in the name of Babbage are you doing e2fsck on a swap device? A
> swap device is _not_ an e2 filesystem. It is not exactly a filesystem
> at all.
Yes, otherwise it shoudl read swfsck. Strangely enough the machine did
just that when booting and gave this message.
> > The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2
> > filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2
> > filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock
> > is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock:
> > e2fsck -b 8193 <device>
> >
> > What have I to do with this?
> >
> Don't run e2fsck on swap.
>
> > And yes it's me who gets those messages:
> >
> > hda: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
> > hda: no DRQ after issuing WRITE
> > ide0: reset: success
> >
> > What is the meaning of it?
> >
> I hate to say it, but I fear your hardware is not reliable.
> Compter equipment generally does not like high humidity (that is why air
> conditioners were invented, you didn't think that was for _your_
> comfort, did you?) and may behave erratically at a RH >80, or 90, or 95%
> (varies depending on the equipment. There is an environmental
> specification for each piece that says what it will tolerate. It _may_
> tolerate more, but don't count on it).
>
How do you know? Was my message dripping wet. I did sit in a puddle of my
own sweat while writing it. Actually I am more concerned about thunder
storms and we just had the first ones for the season when the screw-up
happened.
All seems to be working now after I manually created the swap space in the
hd partition indicated during reinstallation which somehow was not read
properly by the machine.
>
> Lawson
> ---cut here
>
--
Peter
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in
the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
