On Wednesday 15 July 2009 09:18:46 [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. > > That shouldn't cause GRUB to report error 15, which is that the kernel or > initrd image on disk was not found — baring concurrent activity that tried > to update those, I suppose. > > > BTW building imagemagick from source cured the issue but both SuSE and > > ubuntu did it > > I am curious to know what the specific change this made, and which > addressed the issue, was?
Daniel I did not spend the time :-) I was using gallery2 on my www server. Using imagemagick specifically 'identify' the attached file caused 100% du I rebuilt the latest stable (um ... ImageMagick-6.5.4-0.tar.bz2) problem vanished and I continued with OtherStuff. DiskFull means no shutdown and no sync means PowerSwitch can lead to all sorts including grub errors. James
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