File corrupted on crash reboot. Can someone help diagnose?

2012-02-03 Thread Pierre Abbat
I had an email that I was writing to a few people. The computer rebooted itself. I restarted Kmail and found the message window empty. I cd'ed into the directory where it keeps autosaved copies of email being composed and found that it had been overwritten with zero bytes. Fortunately I could re

running vkernels in production

2012-02-03 Thread n0g0013
i'm thinking about testing 'vkernels' as a virtualisation solution; mostly as a platform for some development ideas, however, i have a dilemma regarding how to get console access to the systems without logging in and manually re-starting them. the solution would appear to be, use `/etc/ttys` to st

Re: running vkernels in production

2012-02-03 Thread Matthias Rampke
On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 12:52, n0g0013 wrote: > the solution would > appear to be, use `/etc/ttys` to start and manage the process. Another solution would be to use tmux or screen in the host system to start the vkernels in detached sessions (I've found tmux to be better suited; screen gets confus

Re: running vkernels in production

2012-02-03 Thread n0g0013
On 03.02-15:45, Matthias Rampke wrote: > On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 12:52, n0g0013 wrote: > > the solution would > > appear to be, use `/etc/ttys` to start and manage the process. > > Another solution would be to use tmux or screen [ ... ] thank for the pointer, i'm not aware of tmux and will look

Re: File corrupted on crash reboot. Can someone help diagnose?

2012-02-03 Thread Matthew Dillon
:I had an email that I was writing to a few people. The computer rebooted :itself. I restarted Kmail and found the message window empty. I cd'ed into the :directory where it keeps autosaved copies of email being composed and found :that it had been overwritten with zero bytes. Fortunately I cou

Forcing crash dump doesn't work

2012-02-03 Thread Pierre Abbat
My computer rebooted itself again. (I'm pretty sure now it's a bug in hammer, from the time when it does it and the left periodic.cunsolerfu files.) I typed in the disk password, then it finished booting except for X, which failed to start. I removed the stale lockfile, killed kdm, logged into X