Thanks JD. I haven't quite decided what to do yet. I feel kind of like a
guy who's house just got wiped out by a tornado, and still picking through
the debris trying to figure out what the hell happened. What you said about
not being able to mount in read/write mode reminds me of something I saw
flash on the screen early in the boot process. I was paying extra close
attention to everything at bootup after this happened, and so I'm not sure
if it was new or not, but I saw something about read-only. It was only on
the screen for like a split second. I'll try it again and see if I can
catch anything more.
At 03:25 PM 05/14/2000 +0000, you wrote:
>i'm sorry you have to go. i had a similar problem, but my harddrive
>wouldn't remount in read/write mode. so i basically had a harddirive that
>i could only read off of. the only answer i could get where things like
>edit the fstab file, etc. but i couldn't cause it was a read only
>hd. finally after a week of spending a least 3 hours a day, i gave up and
>reinstalled.
>unfortunatly, that was about a month ago, and this weekend was the first
>chance i've had to play around and set up mandrake. if you decide that
>mandrake is worth one more try, great. but if you decide not, we're sorry
>to lose ya.
>good luck
>jd
>
>
>>From: X Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>Subject: [newbie] No more Mandrake.....
>>Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 01:39:54 -0700
>>
>>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
>>boot process slightly. But then something different popped up:
>>"/dev/hda5 contains a file system with errors, check forced. /dev/hda5:
>>inode 43199 has illegal block(s)" and then:
>>"/dev/hda5: Unexpected Inconsistency: run fsck manually (without -a or -p
>>options)". Then in red, it says "[FAILED]", followed by: "An error occurred
>>during the file system check dropping you to a shell. The system will
>>reboot when you leave the shell. Give root password for maintenance or
>>ctrl-D for normal startup". So I entered the root password, and it said,
>>"BASH: ID: command not found". It repeated that bash message for about 5 or
>>6 lines. I tried the fsck, and then it said: "Parallelizing fsck version
>>1.14...".
>>
>>I manually rebooted again, got the same results. Another time I tried the
>>ctrl-D but it just rebooted back into the same thing. When it rebooted I
>>saw something about "..cannot unlink..." and "..var/unlock file.." but it
>>scrolled too fast to make out the whole message.
>>
>>It took a lot of time and effort over several months to get things to
>>finally work right, and I still had work left to do. I had previously
>>experimented with Slackware, which took forever just to get the basics
>>setup, but then a couple of unexpected severe crashes requiring
>>reinstallation finally sent me back out in search of something better.
>>Mandrake seemed to be it, but this latest disaster has me pretty bummed
>>with the whole thing. It seems like, although Linux may not crash everytime
>>you turn around, the way Windows does, eventually it is going to crash, and
>>crash HARD, and not necessarily for any obvious good reason. It's after 1
>>AM and I've been struggling with this for several hours, so maybe I'll feel
>>different tomorrow and do another reinstall if I have to. But right now I'm
>>thinking maybe I might just look for some other OS, maybe FreeBSD or
>>something. Don't get me wrong - Mandrake has been great, and it's
>>definitely the best distribution of the 3 I've tried, but it just seems
>>like there's some inherent unstableness of a different kind lurking in
>>Linux in general. Maybe I've just been having a string of bad luck. I may
>>still be a 'newbie' but this one came completely out of left field. The
>>worst part of it - I was just about ready to start spending most of my time
>>in Linux. I had just downloaded (not installed) a program that could do
>>what one of my primary windows programs does, and I had just downloaded
>>VMware (also not installed yet). But now here I am back in Windows full
>>time it looks like. I can almost hear Bill laughing :-(
>>
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