Rawhide 64 death from Profound Disk Corruption
Eric Sandeen
sandeen at redhat.com
Thu Apr 9 13:54:09 UTC 2009
Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote:
> This evening when I booted Rawhide on my office computer I
> was greeted with a storm of file system error messages presumably
> related to ext4. Fsck was not able to fix things automatically.
> A manual invocation required a large number of "Y" responses
> to get through the mess. I just held down on the Y key for a
> while.
>
> Since then the boot reports a clean file system. However, as the
> startup announced the network manager, it displayed some @@
> characters, and wedged. There is no keyboard echo. ^Z and ^C
> do nothing. A single Ctrl-Alt-Del starts a shutdown sequence.
> During this sequence The X
> server starts and the login screen makes a brief appearance
> before the reboot.
>
> This has happened before with Rawhide on this machine
> (Ggiabyte ga-ep45-ud3p Core Duo 8500 4 GB, SATA drives).
> I have not noticed any stability problems with XP or Win7
> on this machine.
Filing a bug with the actual error messages and subsequent fsck output
would be the way to move forward on this one.
-Eric
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