fsck lasting several hours (and then forever) after crash

2002-10-24 Thread Andreas Ntaflos
Hello lists (sorry for crossposting), This is kind of serious for me. Here is what happened: I portupgraded the native version of mozilla to 1.1 and fired it up. It crashed and took X with it. Keyboard and mouse where dead, I had to press the reset button. So the system rebooted and

Re: fsck lasting several hours (and then forever) after crash

2002-10-24 Thread Andreas Ntaflos
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 11:40:43AM -0500, Matthew Reimer wrote: Andreas Ntaflos wrote: Is there anything else I could do to help solving this problem? regards We had a problem like this when an ATA disk went bad--the kernel would seem to hang while trying to read the bad part of the