Re: HELP: Newbie needs help with crash

1998-03-05 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 5 Mar 1998, Oliver Elphick wrote: [ description of problem, and Oliver's helpful advice snipped ] : > : >Checking root file system : >Parallelizing fsck : >/dev/hda2 contains a file system with errors, check forced : >/dev/hda2: unattached inode 28780 : >/dev/hda2: UNEXPECTED I

Re: HELP: Newbie needs help with crash

1998-03-05 Thread servis
On 5 Mar, Oliver Elphick wrote: > If you have only the one machine, you are stuck, because X won't let you > switch > to a virtual terminal to do this. > For the future crashes(not that should be any), you could get the joystick module and the jsr_daemon program. This allows you to perform tw

Re: HELP: Newbie needs help with crash

1998-03-05 Thread Oliver Elphick
"Albert Hurd" wrote: >My computer just seized up (cursor frose; ctrl-alt bksp and ctrl-alt del >did nothing). This was probably not the operating system but X. If you have a network or serial connection to another machine or a dumb terminal it should still be possible to get out of this with

Re: HELP: Newbie needs help with crash

1998-03-05 Thread alemas
Go ahead, and run e2fsck, but read the man page first! I don't guarantee anything for you here (disclaimer) and am not a LINUX expert, but it did work for me when I received similar error messages. Read those man pages. If you can't do so on your Debian LINUX OS, the man pages are on the We

HELP: Newbie needs help with crash

1998-03-05 Thread Albert Hurd
My computer just seized up (cursor frose; ctrl-alt bksp and ctrl-alt del did nothing). I then warm rebooted. After the usual, I got: Checking root file system Parallelizing fsck /dev/hda2 contains a file system with errors, check forced /dev/hda2: unattached inode 28780 /dev/hda2: UNEXPECTED INCON