On Tuesday 14 July 2009 10:00:06 [email protected] wrote: > This is mostly a 'wot hoppen?' and 'wot's going on' -- but advice what > to do about it would be very welcome. > > I was using a bash script with convert (from ImageMagick) to convert a > lot of big tiff files, I mistyped a / for a x ... everything froze, > and when I goto ut (it rebooted) there was only a Error 15: File not > found. This was Ubuntu 8.04 > > I was able to swap to the second disk, and, editing root, was able to > boot Debian AMD 64. > > The first disk (actually sdb) seems OK, I checked with fsck, BIOS > recognises it, and I mounted /home partition and backed up -- for what > was not already backed up. fsck has a problem with /dev/sdb3, which > might be the swap ... > > I would like to get the OS back -- the 64 is for experimenting and > does not have programs I use (and keyboard is eccentric); can I ? > reinstall something? check something else? > > most of all though, what could have happened? I guess I know just > enough to screw up.
I recently had a problem with imagemagick utils filling the disk to 100% which makes your problem seem familiar. Boot on CD do a df on your disk and rm -fr /tmp/* James BTW building imagemagick from source cured the issue but both SuSE and ubuntu did it -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
