At 02:46 PM 05/15/2001 -0700, Civileme wrote:
>On Tuesday 15 May 2001 03:31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> I have installed the Opera browser on LM8.0
>>
>> During the normal navigation I got a "freeze screen" .. the PC become
>> completely unresponsive . I thought that this didn't happen on Linux .
>> The fact that an application can bring down an OS was the reason that I've
>> switched from Windows .. many people assured me that "freeze screens" and
>> "blue screens" wouldn't happen. I am a bit disappointed :-(
>>
>> I had to press the reset button and reboot.
>> But while the system was rebooting I've got a message that the disk wasn't
>> cleanly unmounted and that some kind of check had to be done. The problem
>> is that errors were found and I was presented two choices: 1) Press Control
>> + D for normal startup. Which I did .. but with no luck 2)Provide root
>> password to do some kind of manual fixes.
>>
>>
>> Option number two is the reason I'm writing this e-mail.
>>
>> What can I do at the command line to fix this. I am newbie at Linux... I
>> don't have a clue of what to do
>>
>> I really hate the idea of doing a fresh install and lose all my data.
>>
>> Can anyone help?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>> Luis Neves
>
>First of all, you did not have to reboot
>
>You could have pressed ctrl-alt-F2 and come up in a console
>
>Then you login as normal and use these commands
>
>$ ps ax | grep opera
>
>>From the output of the list you should have a line that identifies the name
>and process number of opera
>
>Then you do
>
>$ kill -9 (process number of opera)
>
>and use ctrl-alt-f7 to go back to the GUI screen. If it is still a mess
>(which can happen) then ctrl-alt-backspace will restart X (the basis of the
>GUI interface) and you should be OK.
>
>Opera is still a little shaky. I would recommend Konqueror, Nautilus, or
>similar using Netscape when you need to access a javascript page.
>
>Now for option 2
>
>give the root password
>
>the filesystem with the problem is what you want to fix, and you will be
>shown its designation, like /dev/hda7 (which I will use as an example)
>
>You want
>
>e2fsck -b 8193 -r /dev/hda7
>
You do not need to specify -b and -r to repair the filesystem, you can
simply type e2fsck /dev/hda7
>
>Once the check is done, type ctrl-alt-del to get a reboot going.
Not necessary, simply exit from the "repair" shell, and the system will go
into an automatic reboot.
Michael
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Michael Viron
Senior Systems & Administration Consultant
Web Spinners, University of West Florida
