Ray Olszewski wrote:
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>
> Your questions:
>
> >1. What happened ?
>
> It sounds like you had a problem that you haven't described, one that
> necessitated your pressing the reset button
I was stupidly using gimp to open a very very large jpeg. It ran out of
swap and I ran out of patience. I know it ran out of swap cause the last
time i stared at it for two hours before rebooting (button on the PC
case) Despite the sound I do not do this on a regular basis. Last time
there was no such problem, upon rebooting.
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> My guess is that the problem somehow messed up
> your SCSI controller or your parallel port,
I do not have a SCSI controller and the file was not on the zip, rather
on a vfat partition. I am not sure if the partition (on the zip) was
mounted at the time
> so that the kernel (which itself was fine) couldn't find it. The problem was
>corrected when > the power outage did what you should have tried anyway, a power-down
>reset.
that may be it, i don't think i turned it off.
>
> In a situation like this one, you should redirect the dmesg output to a
> file, so you can tell people what the actual message was.
i know but the problem went away before i got around to that, i thought
it was permanent
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