Well I'm officially very ticked off.
I had some problems with X. It crashed, hard. Mouse/keyboard, evertying stopped working. Somehow, through a miracle I think, I got it to reboot by hitting teh reset button or just banging keys. Needless to say, I lost all the mail I'd d/led today. I also lost some small bookmarks *No biggy there*. The mail is what I was ticked about. I couldn't figure out a way to save it. I am using Sylpheed. When I rebooted, I got "fails" on a lot of Modules that tried to load. Like "DevFs=Fail!".... this was my first clue my install didn't survive. Now, knowing Reiser is supposed to stop corruption of an FS, why did it fail this time? Is it me or something else? any ideas to avoid this unfortunate situation in the future? I did try to get to a term by ctrl-alt-Fx. No joy. So...couldn't shutdown gracefully. *sigh* I tried the rescue option. Ya that didn't work. I tried the "reinstall but don't format /home". I have only 3 partitions *root (/), swap, home* and have yet to figure out how to divide up more & get it to work properly. *Thats a diff issue*. However, on reboot I got teh same fails. Plus! Kde couldn't write/execute the .ICEauthority file. :\ I tried the "chmod" method of giving global access... another file needed it. At that point it seemed easier to just reinstall all & save my nvidia drivers I'd downloaded instead. *sigh* Help? Pls? I am at a loss as to how to avoid/fix this in the future if this happens. And why reiser failed. Femme
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