On Sun, 23 Mar 2003, John Ascroft wrote: > The boot process detected that it was an abnormal restart and mentioned > deleting 5 orphan subblocks. I didn;t do a full file system check at > that point. The system came up apparently ok but...
There are two things that can go wrong when you have to reboot your computer like this. The first is that the file-system can become unstable, creating invalid blocks. The filesystem check (which is similar to scandisk under windows) fixes these problems automatically. The other problem is that applications might leave files in strange states. For example, it appears that Mozilla has left a 'lock' file lying around somewhere. You could delete your entire .mozilla directory, but that will remove any preferences you have for mozilla. Better is to search in that directory for a lock file. It will probably have "lock" in it's file name. Your file-browser (called nautilus if you are running Gnome) probably has a similar problem. Try looking in the .nautilus directory. Hope that helps, Tim Wright Assistant Lecturer Department of Computer Science University of Canterbury http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~tnw13
