On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 14:34, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > For those of you who were following/helping me with this thread, I've made > some progress - 1 step forward, 2 steps back. <grin> > > Kmail has been crashing quite a bit since I upgraded to 9.1, full lockups > requiring hard resets. So...I figured it was probably something in > /home/darklord/Mail. I went into Mail and started going thru each folder, > deleting files as I went. I got to /Mail/sent-mail/cur and encountered a > really odd problem, one I've not seen before. From KDE, right-clicking on the > cur folder, and using delete OR from a shell, "rm -f -r cur" causes a very > spontaneous reboot. No warnings, no errors, no messages at all - just goes to > a black screen, and a normal startup, just as if you were turning the comp. > on for the first time that day. Suspiciously like when I run "updatedb". > So...I go to /etc/updatedb.conf and exclude my /home directory. Voila! > "updatedb" now runs and completes with no problems. However, this still > leaves me with a directory in /home/darklord/Mail/cur that can't be deleted.
Yes it can... I had this in var one time on a box. Boot from disk 1 in rescue mode and have it mount your partitions... then from it go in and delete this dir. This took care of this for me. James > > I finally did a "mv Mail .Mail-old", reran Kmail and so far its been behaving. > > Anyone have any ideas on how to get rid of a rogue directory? Obviously there > is something in it that Linux abhors (as do I!) :-) > > Thanks.
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