On Fri, 8 Oct 2010, Rich Shepard wrote: > This morning's report on the dirvish backup reported errors of files being > removed before they could be backed up. This in a directory that I've not > accessed for several years so nothing should have changed any files there. > As a matter of fact, I've done nothing in that partition recently. > > Anyway, I cannot remove this spurious files as they have no information > associated with them when displayed. Here's an example: > > ?????????? ? ? ? ? ? xdbctl_8h-source.htm
Turns out this and other strange behaviors were all related to a failing video/north bridge chip on the system board. It croaked totally Sunday afternoon just after I finished upgrading the system to Slackware-13.3 and tried rebooting. Turns out the failure also took out the new kernel modules which made for much amusement here when I tried booting the system after buying a new system board, CPU, memory, and (just for giggles) a new, small, flat Antek Minuet 350 case. After re-installing Slackware-13.0 a few times, everything but firefox is running. Soon I'll get up the courage to upgrade to -13.1 which changes all the ATA drive designations from hd* to sd* and alters all the IDs of the optical and supplemental (e.g., USB flash) drives. Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
