Hi everyone,
I am on the verge of reformating my hard drive and installing Redhat all over again. I used PartitionMagic at the InstallFest to resize my partitions, and no I'm having a bunch of problems. This is the problem: Redhat will not shutdown. If I use the poweroff command or shutdown via gnome-panel, Redhat will stop processes like so: --------------------- stoping key table: [ OK ] stoping cups: [ OK ] ... INIT: No more processes left in this run table. -------------------- After which, the system hangs. I have no choice but to power off my laptop and the power back on. When I power on, the system notes that the computer powered off uncleanly, forces a file system check, fails, then drops me down to root. Then I have to use fsck to resolve my file system errors, afterwhich I can start up correctly again. ***But I still can't shutdown!*** You can see that I am stuck in a kind of vicious cycle. Any ideas of what's going on? As an aside, when I do start up I notice that a lot of files don't work or are missing. Eclipse is can't find necessary files needed to start up. My orinoco (wireless card) driver is gone, as well as all of my network printer settings. Does anyone have any suggestions for me? Do I have to reinstall Redhat? Best, Tony -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Tony Vance Sent: Tue 9/16/2003 5:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Subject: [newbies] fsck help, hard drive is spiraling out of control! Hi everyone, I shutdown my computer uncleanly because it wasn't responding, and now Redhat forces a file check and finds a ton of duplicate blocks, and now my laptop won't boot into Gnome. I just get the option to logon as root. This same problem happened during last weeks Linux InstallFest. Someone named Andrew ran a fsck command and fixed the duplicate block problem. How do I use the fsck command? Like this? $ fsck /dev/hda Thanks for the help! Best, Tony
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