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disk full up!!! why???
Calum:
hmm. the crashes do not occur because i take the disk out without unmounting it. they occur when i copy, sometimes.
to check whether it is a problem in kde, i will have to use kde for a while instead of xfce (since the problem is erratic), which i will do for a week or two, to see if the problem persists.
re: rebooting after freezing causing mounting difficulties, well this may be the case, anybody have any ideas how to check/fix this?
Calum:
okay. i have been using kde for a few weeks. Now. the freezing problem happens every now and again for NO REASON. last night it happened while i was typing in a reply to this bulletin board, and today it happened while i was trying to copy a file from one directory to another on the hard drive.
Now when this happens the screen freezes, and ctrl-alt-backspace does not restart X. xtrl-alt-f1 does not change me to a text prompt, and ctrl-alt-del does nothing. i need to hard reboot using the power button to make it work. when i do this, i get an fsck which, after going up to about 89%, tells me to run it again in non interactive mode. at this point it hangs, requiring another hard reboot. the second time the same thing happens except that after exiting at 89%, i get asked if i want to run fsck in non interactive mode, y/n to which i answer yes.
Not good, anybody know how to sort this?
Calum:
no takers?
Calum:
it doesn;t. i have been fighting with windows millenium for a year or two now, i am familiar with its MANY idiosyncracies. Unlike windows 2000, windows 98 and so on, that is not one of its functions.
also, your comments about linux being duff and so on are pretty redundant, and are too late. My most recent post showed that the disk thing was not the cause, and i am beginning to suspect that it is a hardware fault, possibly something to do with my video card, possibly something to do with the motherboard (since the video card is integrated, and since these SiS chips are known to be full of hardware bugs anyway i am not surprised).
A N Y W A Y . . . . .
i have since installed GNU automount and amd and have had NO problem with floppies whatsoever, it seems that Mandrake supermount is the flaky product, and what with my version of it being about a year old, i will be eager to see how the new version that comes with mandake 9.0 fares.
i think you and gooseberry clock should get together and have an irrelevancy fest, although i appreciate that you are nowhere near as irritating or as irrelevant as him, you seem to be coming close today...
Calum:
hey, zombie, as luck and the gods would have it i just had EXACTLY THE SAME PROBLEM in windows 2000 on an IBM T22. That's some of the most normal, middle of the road hardware and software, so what's the deal? it must just be my typing style i think...
either that or windows is shit... no, couldn't be that, could it? NOW, does anybody have a sensible answer to my linux related question?
thanks in advance...
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