On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 08:06:34PM +0200, David Bergman wrote: > A friend encountered the following problem, I wonder > if any of you can offer a solution. > > Hi > I've got this problem. i'm working on a linux machine (RH 7.1), and > since a few days ago, my root directory looks like this: > > [root@localhost /]# ls > > 06b51c 5rQnfd BiIwdF fjqUPd iIphDP MaenTV pPg3pp TMJ8wy wNnKOl > 07J8qH 5rsxp6 bin fL1TiT iLH35f MALyW4 proc tmp > WOGtoA 0AsnGr 5U3fiO bJkJdu FLipx7 iNksQu mbNyUv psL8kl tNbCQV > wrjaJx 0c4ZGW 5wuDTj bNHzr3 fMYN6W Ipeidd MCgJh9 PUJLUd tnuQFX > wrPWwp 0f66ee 5xuFxz bNKhGc Folk9K iTetqe MEsbm7 PUVlyp TpvY5K > wYvYqN 0ggOQu 6dnILM BNkpzB foP2A9 IVIYRm mFWoAX pvRaIb TqD5ze > x4C7Qc 0PuFQJ 6gGmw0 boot fOTDAb iWsIJq misc pWs1dn TQqNMS > X6Owab 0ThQ40 6hQh4Y boVtrH fpfoWM iXwwAn MjQIa4 PZ56Xy TrdMW8 > X7OYDe 0xblHM 6KyKll boXDgn ftF4nl J36TcX mnt Q96s1P TSrZDd > xb02Pe 16hMXe 6sGS7z bS3dMa FySGJN j5TIjf MQ4iOx QA11wY tsS1bP > XbSpwt 187fV9 6Xo4S9 bUklid fytsfR j9w1TS muBqml QaJahC tt56J9 > xcRT0B > > and so on.... This is pretty much what my home directory looks like after some heavy Lynx usage. Have you been using Lynx (perhaps as root)? Do the directories contain a lot of cached HTML files? > The machine functions ok, but sometimes it can't boot and freezes > after this boot message: "KSwapd 1.8". > > are the two problems connected? is there anything to be done besides > formatting and resinstalling? If it's Lynx, I doubt it. Unless the disk space is finished or so. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
