Re: [expert] "updatedb" crashes system - update.

2003-06-27 Thread Jack Coates
On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 08:15, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > On Monday 23 June 2003 09:17 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: > > > Yes it can... I had this in var one time on a box. Boot from disk 1 in > > rescue mode and have it mount your partitions... then from it go in and > > delete this dir. This took ca

Re: [expert] "updatedb" crashes system - update.

2003-06-24 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 23 June 2003 09:17 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: > Yes it can... I had this in var one time on a box. Boot from disk 1 in > rescue mode and have it mount your partitions... then from it go in and > delete this dir. This took care of this for me. > > James Wonder what the diff is between

Re: [expert] "updatedb" crashes system - update.

2003-06-24 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 23 June 2003 09:21 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: > Opps forgot one thing It's possible.. that there is a bad sector on > the drive and Mail was/is right on the spot. If this is the case... > leave it... It's a really crude way of denying working files access to a > bad sector. > > Jame

Re: [expert] "updatedb" crashes system - update.

2003-06-24 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 24 June 2003 12:23 am, Lorne wrote: > I wonder if you couldn't somehow move it to /dev/nul. I dunno how to do it > though. > > > Thanks. There's a thought - wish I could do all trouble-some things that way! :-) --

Re: [expert] "updatedb" crashes system - update.

2003-06-23 Thread Lorne
On Monday 23 June 2003 02:34 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > For those of you who were following/helping me with this thread, I've made > some progress - 1 step forward, 2 steps back. > > Kmail has been crashing quite a bit since I upgraded to 9.1, full lockups > requiring hard resets. So...I figured

Re: [expert] "updatedb" crashes system - update.

2003-06-23 Thread James Sparenberg
On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 18:17, James Sparenberg wrote: > On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 14:34, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > > For those of you who were following/helping me with this thread, I've made > > some progress - 1 step forward, 2 steps back. > > > > Kmail has been crashing quite a bit since I upgraded

Re: [expert] "updatedb" crashes system - update.

2003-06-23 Thread James Sparenberg
On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 14:34, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > For those of you who were following/helping me with this thread, I've made > some progress - 1 step forward, 2 steps back. > > Kmail has been crashing quite a bit since I upgraded to 9.1, full lockups > requiring hard resets. So...I figured i

[expert] "updatedb" crashes system - update.

2003-06-23 Thread Ronald J. Hall
For those of you who were following/helping me with this thread, I've made some progress - 1 step forward, 2 steps back. Kmail has been crashing quite a bit since I upgraded to 9.1, full lockups requiring hard resets. So...I figured it was probably something in /home/darklord/Mail. I went into