Re: [newbie] "updatedb" crashes and resets my comp.!!!

2003-06-13 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 13 June 2003 07:27 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 00:04, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > > > * Check the size of your SWAP > > > > Now here's an odd one - df and kdisk neither one show a swap? Is there > > some trick to seeing it? (IIRC it always showed up before) > > fdisk -l >

Re: [newbie] "updatedb" crashes and resets my comp.!!!

2003-06-13 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 13 June 2003 07:52 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > Or : if you are a little concerned about using fdisk ( I am ) > you can just ( from a terminal ) type *top*. Then, at the top > of the screen swap usage is displayed ( an updated ) every now > and then. To get out of *top* just press *q*. > >

Re: [newbie] "updatedb" crashes and resets my comp.!!!

2003-06-13 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 13 June 2003 01:21 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: >Neither df or any GUI for it will show swap because /swap has no > file system. 'fdisk -l' (as root that's a lower case L), or > 'free -m' (as user) will show your swap partition. Sometimes it's > useful to clear the swap. As root, > >

Re: [newbie] "updatedb" crashes and resets my comp.!!!

2003-06-13 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday June 13 2003 09:04 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > Now here's an odd one - df and kdisk neither one show a swap? Is > there some trick to seeing it? (IIRC it always showed up before) Neither df or any GUI for it will show swap because /swap has no file system. 'fdisk -l' (as root that's

Re: [newbie] "updatedb" crashes and resets my comp.!!!

2003-06-13 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 13 June 2003 02:01 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > * Double check all your system path(s) in the /etc/profile, the .bashrc > of your home account, the /etc/ld.so.conf .bashrc looks okay - I have a lot of aliases in there but they are valid. ld.co.conf looks like this: /usr/X11R6/lib /usr/lib/

Re: [newbie] "updatedb" crashes and resets my comp.!!!

2003-06-12 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 15:19, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > Why? > > I've never had this behavior before out of a Mandrake setup. > > As root, I can type in "updatedb" at a shell, and it will run for 2-3 mins, as > per usual, then suddenly, monitor goes black, and machine spontaneously > reboots. > >

[newbie] "updatedb" crashes and resets my comp.!!!

2003-06-12 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Why? I've never had this behavior before out of a Mandrake setup. As root, I can type in "updatedb" at a shell, and it will run for 2-3 mins, as per usual, then suddenly, monitor goes black, and machine spontaneously reboots. I have an 80 gig HD. and usually...some kind of damage is done. Thi