I think I might have made a minor breakthrough... I was using VNC to access this machine from another room. I had OpenProj, Firefox and Kmail running. Firefox had a number of tabs open. The minute I clicked on Synaptic Package Manager to install PartEd (ironically) I noticed a spike in the CPU usage. That old sinking feeling hit me and before I could kill the process the VNC window seemed to freeze. I came to this machine to find the screen blank with the Caps Lock key flashing. None of the methods worked to get access to a shell to reboot (no SSH/Telnet, no Webmin, etc). I did a hard shutdown, booted a LiveCD and used PartEd to check the filesystem. Luckily there wasn't as much damage as there had been with the previous crashes. After fixing a couple of corrupted inodes I was able to boot and run everything with no problem. Again, I've grabbed the logs to include with this report.
** Attachment added: "dmesg.log" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/23178005/dmesg.log -- Ubuntu 8.10 freezes, hard shutdown, Superblock and filesystem corrupted https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/334707 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
