"Albert Hurd" wrote: >My computer just seized up (cursor frose; ctrl-alt bksp and ctrl-alt del >did nothing).
This was probably not the operating system but X. If you have a network or serial connection to another machine or a dumb terminal it should still be possible to get out of this without hitting the reset button or the power switch. If you can, get a telnet session to your frozen machine and kill the X server. That should release the session on the frozen machine so that you don't get the problems caused by rebooting without a shutdown. If you have only the one machine, you are stuck, because X won't let you switch to a virtual terminal to do this. If you do have to hit the reset button, try to wait for a minute after any disk activity. That should give the system a chance to sync the disks and reduce the chance of damaging files; it's not guaranteed though. > I then warm rebooted. After the usual, I got: > >Checking root file system >Parallelizing fsck >/dev/hda2 contains a file system with errors, check forced >/dev/hda2: unattached inode 28780 >/dev/hda2: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY >FSCK FAIL. lease repair manually and reboot. >Please note that the root file system is currently mounted read only. To >remount it write >#mount -n -o remount,rw / > >I remounted as requested and got > >EXT2-fs warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is recommended. >EXT2-fs error (device 03:02): ext2_check_blocks_bitmap: wrong free blocks >count in super block, Stored = 3170112, counted = 3170136 > EXT2-fs error (device 03:02): ext2_check_inodes_bitmap: wrong free inodes >count in super block, Stored = 977529, counted = 977522 > >I then tried #fsck and got > >Parallelizing fsck version 1.10. > >#fsck -r gave same thing. > >Then tried #e2fsck /dev/hda2 as advised above and got > >/dev/hda2 is mounted. Do you want to continue (y/n). You really have no choice but to say yes here. You can't unmount your root file system without shutting down altogether! > >I cautiously responded n. I also tried #rdev -R/vmlinuz 1 which Sobell's >book says should >force Linux to boot with root file system mounted readonly, and got > >1: no such file or directory. > > >I am now at a standstill. Any help on what to do next would be much >appreciated. -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .