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 <control><alt><esc>. 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 get a popup menu, then icons wouldn't respond. Finally, the taskbar kinda faded out.
I went for the KDE task manager to see if something was grabbing all my resources and kill it, but it wouldn't open up. Finally, I killed the x server with a <control> <backspace>. I was dropped to a prompt, instead of the graphical login I usually get. (this all happened pretty fast folks). I decided not to take any chances and reboot. I su'ed and 'shutdown -r now" but it wouldn't go past the shutdown message. I let it set for about 10 minutes before trying to go to another console, but by this point - everything was locked up hard. So...I gritted my teeth and powered off. (I should mention that I tried the "raising skinny elephants" bit first). Starting backup, it goes fine until reiserfs starts complaining about not having shutdown correctly (expected), but where normally this is recovered and the boot process continues - it drops to a prompt, where you can login as root. So I did. Started doing the usual reiserfsck stuff, --check, --rebuild-tree and all that. Everything is fine until we get to /dev/hda8 (home). It gets to about 80% complete - then says there is a file that has to be deleted - it reports it does, but then locks up there every time. I tried about 3 times like this, reboots always gives the error that --rebuild-tree did not finish (duh). Anyways, so in a complete reversal of what usually happens, where you keep home and have to redo everything else, I had to do the upgrade, select no packages - and format hda8 (home). Odd. Fortunately, I do have recent backups so I didn't lose anything vital but I wold appreciate comments on what anyone thinks may have happened and why reiserfsck, which has been ultra-reliable here, couldn't handle whatever happened to my home directory. Thanks guys! :-) -- /\ Dark><Lord \/
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