Hi,
I'm posting this again b/c I've been having email difficulties
and I'm not sure it got through the first time. If it did I apologize.
I'm beginning to suspect that there may be a bug in the stock
mandrake kernel that causes file system corruption. (I installed
mandrake7.0 almost a week ago now.)
Eg. I downloaded star office to my home directory and then su'd
and copy'd the file to the directory I wanted to install it in.
I untarred it and installed it; had some problems with kde
integration so figured I'd just reinstall it. ( I was tired ok! )
However the second time I untarred it I got crc errors. So I copied it
back from my home dir and untarred it and it worked. However half
way through the install I got crc errors while extracting files
(I had previously removed the old install and setup directories
so there were no preexisting files there).
So I downloaded it again and it worked fine for about two hours then
some lib's started getting corrupted and it refused to load, it
would immediately segfault. So I completely deleted it and the
install directory and untarred it again and ran it and got crc
errors. Anyways I ended up downloading it again and
reinstalling it.
Then I was tired so I shutdown the computer normally with "shutdown -h
now" I waited until it was done and went to bed. When I fired up the
computer today I got alot of errors on the root drive and a nasty fsck.
If this is fs corruption as a result of a bug in the kernel or something
else is there a way that I can specifically test this?
Sheldon.
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"Superstition is a word the ignorant use to describe their ignorance."
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