On Tuesday 11 January 2005 19:44, Ronald J. Hall wrote:
> 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! :-)
Sounds like something with bittorrent. What did the error message
say ? What torrent were you downloading/uploading ? Did you set
your firewall to open for torrents ?
Kaj Haulrich.
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