Hello On Monday 04 September 2006 23:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I am observing the following Reiser failure: > > I am trying to use camorama with a Creative WebCam Live spca5xx driver > (recently downloaded and compiled) . Camorama does not start and computer > freezes (no response to mouse, or keyboard. Can't change to terminal > window. > > Reset or pull plug leaves Knoppix 5.0.1-DVD unbootable: > > The actual message from GRUB is inconsistent filesystem?! From a boot > loader?
after unclean shutdown journal reply is necessary to return reiserfs to consistent state. Maybe GRUB did not do that? > > The 'fix' is even stranger. I execute fsck.reiserfs from another OS > partition on the Knoppix 5.0.1-DVD partition (takes forever). Did fsck complete? What did it report? > Somehow > 'reading' the Knoppix filesystem 'fixes' whatever was preventing Knoppix > 5.0.1-DVD from booting. > fsck replayed the journal. Does camorama work now? If it still causes computer freeze - can you please install serial or network console and try to catch what does kernel output when it freezes. > I am curious what your comments and/or suggestions might be? > > regards to all Linuxers, > john
