OK, well, I can't help you with any of the stuff below =-( BUT, I can tell
you one other thing to try before the dreaded 3-Finger Salute.
Try jumping to one of the other virtual terminals by pressing
control-alt-F2 or any of the other function keys 3-6. If that doesn't
work (and make sure to give it a good long time), then if at all possible,
try to telnet to the machine from another machine. Orderly shutdown is
VERY important in linux for exactly the reason you describe below.
Oh, you can also press cntrl-alt-backspace to try to kill the x-server, i
think, or try cntrl-alt-F1 and then control-c to do the same.
Hope this helps "next" time... (knock on wood)
Later,
David
"Without the Law, there is no Liberty. Without Justice, there is no Law."
On Thu, 16 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hey guys, after reporting a perfectly fine system running a perfectly
> fine Linux about half-a-minute ago, I've now encountered a problem.
>
> Here goes: This is the life of my Linux box as follows.
>
> 1) I type "vi /etc/lilo.conf" and edit a few things to make it recognize
> that my system has 64 megs of RAM. I also change the default boot from
> "linux" (which crashed my computer) to "linux-up" which works perfectly
> fine. If I recalled exactly, I'd tell you what "linux" tried to boot.
> I think it was "2.2.2-19mkdsr" or something, but that's likely
> incorrect.
>
> 2) I reboot my system and rejoice that it recognizes that I have 64 megs
> of RAM. I log in as my local user and start up KDE (under the annoying
> 1024x768 virtual desktop), then exit and log out when I realise I have
> to mount a floppy to get some updates. (Side question spawning... how
> do I set a User other than root to mount?)
>
> 3) I log in again as 'root' and run Xconfigurator to set my display to
> the default autoprobed setting, which is 16-bit 1024x768. I type
> 'startx' to run it. It starts up, but it's going very, very slowly. It
> tells me that it's creating "/root/desktop", but when I click "OK", the
> computer freezes... the mouse doesn't move, the computer doesn't move,
> "three finger salute" (CTL-ALT-DEL) doesn't work. I leave it for about
> five minutes, and then I give up and press "RESET".
>
> 4) I reboot my machine. When it checks the filesystems, it returns a
> group of errors.... let's copy them out below:
>
> /dev/hda7 was not cleanly unmounted, check forved.
> /dev/hda7: Oops: 0000
> CPU: 0
> EIP: 0010:[<c012d900>]
> EFLAGS: 00010286
> eax: ffffffff ebx: ffffffff ecx: c0214b60 edx: c0ffe000
> esi: c3ed190c edi: c0214b60 ebp: c3ea0000 esp: c3ea1f50
> ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
> Process initlog (pid: 22, process nr: 10, stackpage=c3a1000)
> Stack: (it outputs a bunch of numbers that appear to be memory
> addresses, I don't think they'd mean anything to you so I won't waste
> my time typing them all out. There are 24 8-digit hexadecimal numbers).
> Call Trace: [<c012af71>] [<c012e213>] [<c012e355>] [<c0109be4>]
> Code: 8b 43 04 3d fe 00 00 00 77 3a c1 e0 04 b9 00 ff ff 03 43
> /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit: line 112: 22 Segmentation fault initlog-c "fsck -T
> -a $fsckoptions /"
> [FAILED]
>
> *** An error occured during the filesystem check. Dropping you to the
> shell; the system will repoot when you leave the shell. ***
>
> /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit: /sbin/sulogin: cannot execute binary file
> Unmounting file systems
> /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit: line 112: 31 Segmentation fault umount -a
> malloc: block on free list clobbered
> Report this to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> INIT: Entering runlevel: 3
> INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> [It repeats this message for for all id's up to 6. I have four
> partitions on my hard drive... /boot, /, /home, swap space, plus two
> floppies and a CD-ROM].
>
> INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel
>
> After a delay of five minutes, it'll report the INIT: respawning too
> fast messages again and disable the ID's for five minutes again.
>
> Can anyone help me?
>
> I run an AMD-K6 233 on a Tyan Tomcat Motherboard. I have 64 megs of
> 60ns EDO RAM. (The Legacy ISA's are turned off, BTW). If you need more
> information I can provide it by looking into my system's BIOS.
>
> Thank you for your time.
> --
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