On Wednesday 12 January 2005 17:26, Ronald J. Hall wrote:
> On Wednesday 12 January 2005 03:27 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote:
> > Just a guess : the message "bad info on file" + shorewall
> > stopped could mean you have been compromised somehow. On other
> > file-sharing networks like kazaa it's common to find malware,
> > uploaded by the RIAA-type companies in order to scare people
> > off. On the other hand, it's unlikely they could come up with
> > something able to run on Linux.
>
> I doubt that too... :-)
>
> > Another guess : were you running out of space on the /home
> > partition ? - Some movies consume more than 2-3 GB ? - Do you
> > have partmon running.
>
> No - it was a roughly 800 meg file. I've got a 120 gigger, lots
> of space on home, and partmon -is- running.
>
> > When I use bittorrent I always open ports 6xxx only. Never had
> > a problem and I often leave it running for a considerable time
> > after finishing the download. I don't know what happens if -
> > let's say - you've only one peer and that one suddenly shuts
> > down ?
>
> I'm not sure what happens then either.
>
> > Did you get the problem fixed somehow ?
> >
> > Kaj Haulrich.
>
> I won't know I guess - until/if it happens again. (heavers
> forbid!). As far as recovery, yes, I was able to use CD1 to
> "fake" an update, deselect all packages, reformat /dev/hda8
> (home) and reinstall from backup CD/DVD.
>
> I guess it could have been worse.
>
> Any crash you walk away from....right? :-)
Agreed. On the other hand, under those circumstances it should be
doable to fix a corrupt partition by using reiserfsck. Dark Lady
in the machine, perhaps ? - Anyway, I'm glad you got it fixed.
Kaj Haulrich.
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