Re: [newbie] Odd experience

2005-01-13 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 12 January 2005 12:21 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: Hi Tom. Three ideas; you ran out'a disk space or ram/swap or failed to limit upload rate. Another consideration is you need to be very careful on movie torrent sites. Most are uploaded (the torrent file) by really clueless

Re: [newbie] Odd experience

2005-01-12 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Wednesday 12 January 2005 06:33, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Tuesday 11 January 2005 02:31 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Sounds like something with bittorrent. What did the error message say ? What torrent were you downloading/uploading ? Did you set your firewall to open for torrents ? Kaj

Re: [newbie] Odd experience

2005-01-12 Thread et
On Wednesday 12 January 2005 03:27 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Wednesday 12 January 2005 06:33, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Tuesday 11 January 2005 02:31 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Sounds like something with bittorrent. What did the error message say ? What torrent were you

Re: [newbie] Odd experience

2005-01-12 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 12 January 2005 03:27 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Just a guess : the message bad info on file + shorewall stopped could mean you have been compromised somehow. On other file-sharing networks like kazaa it's common to find malware, uploaded by the RIAA-type companies in order to

Re: [newbie] Odd experience

2005-01-12 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 12 January 2005 05:43 am, et wrote: /home or /tmp or where ever bt is storing the download until it writes to the completed file? As far as I know - it usually (but not always) creates (it asks) a folder on /home that it d/ls the file to. I've probably got 20 gigs free on /home,

Re: [newbie] Odd experience

2005-01-12 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Wednesday 12 January 2005 17:26, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Wednesday 12 January 2005 03:27 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Just a guess : the message bad info on file + shorewall stopped could mean you have been compromised somehow. On other file-sharing networks like kazaa it's common to find

Re: [newbie] Odd experience

2005-01-12 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 12 January 2005 11:34 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Any crash you walk away fromright? :-) Agreed. On the other hand, under those circumstances it should be doable to fix a corrupt partition by using reiserfsck. Dark Lady in the machine, perhaps ? - Anyway, I'm glad you got it

Re: [newbie] Odd experience

2005-01-12 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday 11 January 2005 11:33 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Tuesday 11 January 2005 02:31 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Sounds like something with bittorrent. What did the error message say ? What torrent were you downloading/uploading ? Did you set your firewall to open for torrents ?

[newbie] Odd experience

2005-01-11 Thread Ronald J. Hall
As in, I've just had one in the last little bit. :-( I was attempting a d/l via bittorrent. It timed out, and gave an error message. I had to kill it via controlaltesc. Nothing seemed to come of this for a few moments - then I started losing my system. I couldn't right-click on the desktop and

Re: [newbie] Odd experience

2005-01-11 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Tuesday 11 January 2005 19:44, Ronald J. Hall wrote: As in, I've just had one in the last little bit. :-( I was attempting a d/l via bittorrent. It timed out, and gave an error message. I had to kill it via controlaltesc. Nothing seemed to come of this for a few moments - then I started

Re: [newbie] Odd experience

2005-01-11 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 05:44, Ronald J. Hall wrote: As in, I've just had one in the last little bit. :-( I was attempting a d/l via bittorrent. It timed out, and gave an error message. I had to kill it via controlaltesc. Nothing seemed to come of this for a few moments - then I started

Re: [newbie] Odd experience

2005-01-11 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 11 January 2005 02:31 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Sounds like something with bittorrent. What did the error message say ? What torrent were you downloading/uploading ? Did you set your firewall to open for torrents ? Kaj Haulrich. It does, doesn't it? The error message was

Re: [newbie] Odd experience

2005-01-11 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 11 January 2005 02:30 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote: What I would have done is to boot with the installation CD and do a linux rescue - then run the reiserfsck all ReiserFS partitions. I experienced something similar a few months back on a workstation here - bootup reiserfsck choked and