>>>>> "elliott-brennan" == elliott-brennan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
elliott-brennan> Hi all I use Dapper at the present. elliott-brennan> On the weekend I was copying images from my DSLR elliott-brennan> (common event) to my machine using Digikam. elliott-brennan> I was running a few other things and suddenly the elliott-brennan> whole system froze. Ctrl-Alt-Backspace didn't elliott-brennan> work. Nor did Alt-Shift-sysrq-S-U-B. Dunno what caused this. Can you remember if the disk light was on? I'll bet it was on solid; with very heavy I/O under some circumstances, Linux can appear to freeze for a while. If whatever is causing the heavy I/O is still present, the freeze can go on for minutes. elliott-brennan> So I held in the power button and turned off the elliott-brennan> machine. A restart was fine indicated some checking elliott-brennan> going on (I can't recall unfortunately what the elliott-brennan> message was but kept a copy of the 'messages' file). So there were filesystem updates in-progress, and the on-disc data got corrupted. elliott-brennan> Then just a short while ago, I was deleting a file elliott-brennan> and I got a message along the lines of not being able elliott-brennan> to access /home/patrick/.kde/config/<name of file> elliott-brennan> . Then I couldn't download an e-mail, with a elliott-brennan> message along the lines of having a full HDD (I've elliott-brennan> got 10s of Gigs left as can be seen at bottom). That's because some silly apps can't distinguish between ENOSPACE and EROFS At this point, you reboot into single user and run fsck. You'l;l prebably see a message something like, `filesystem corruption detected, remounting read-only' elliott-brennan> /dev/hda2 clean /dev/hda3 contains a file system with elliott-brennan> errors, check forced. That's right. elliott-brennan> Deleted inode 3342344 has zerod dtime. Fixed. That's fine, it just means that a file was being deleted, and the directory entry was updated OK, but the inode entry was not. elliott-brennan> Could someone please provide me with some information elliott-brennan> about what this may mean? The big question is, exactly why did the system hang? And will it do it again? -- Dr Peter Chubb http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au peterc AT gelato.unsw.edu.au http://www.ertos.nicta.com.au ERTOS within National ICT Australia -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
