> I think I may finally be ready to throw in the towel on Linux. Everything
> is gone, and I wasn't even doing a damn thing other than browsing with
> Netscape. One 2nd everything was great, then for no apparent reason the
> browser went blank - nothing but a white screen - and it wouldn't close. So
> I went to use the Kill tool on it, but I couldn't because all the desktop
> icons had disappeared, leaving only black outlines of where they would
> normally be. I still wasn't overly concerned because this happens from time
> to time anyway. I tried to shutdown, but the shutdown message just came up
> and froze, along with everything else except the mouse. So I manually
> rebooted. The "not cleanly unmounted" errors came up, as they have been
> every time for the past couple months - it usually seems to just delay the
I sympathize with you, i just recently re-installed LM, after hosing up the
system so bad , fschk could not recover.
First, what version of LM are you using. LM 6.0 had a problem that caused it
not to unmount file systems properly during shutdown.
Second, if you are getting 'not cleanly unmounted' errors on later versions,
than you are not shutting down correctly, Linux does not like resets any more
that Windows, and it is likely to cause greater problems.
The best solution is insure that you have telnet capability in to your machine,
when you get a lockup, telnet into your machine from another machine and kill
the offending processes, kill the login shell if you have to. I understand
this solution is not practical if your are running a home system and using the
only phone line to connect to the Internet from the locked-up machine.
Maybe the gurus on this list can come up with a useable solution in those
circumstances.
Joseph H. Perry
Oracle DBA
Columbus State University
4225 University Ave
Columbus, GA 31907-5645
(706) 568-2063
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