Filesystem corruption, data loss on usb drives, and more problems with FC2
Fernando Perez
Fernando.Perez at colorado.edu
Fri Jun 4 18:31:50 UTC 2004
Andy Green wrote:
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>>Buffer I/O error on device sda2, logical block 1
>>lost page write due to I/O error on sda2
>>EXT2-fs error (device sda2): ext2_get_inode: unable to read inode block -
>>inode=16208, block=65540
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> Update your kernel to Arjan's latest, there are USB probs in the one in FC2.
As I just reported elsewhere in this thread, the problem remains with Arjan's
latest, 100% reproducible.
>>OpenOffice won't start- CRITICAL
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>>It simply won't start. The splash screen comes up, and when the progress
>>bar finishes, it just stays there. I tried removing the old ~/.openoffice
>>directory and all other dot-files related to any previous OpenOffice
>>version, but this did not help.
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>>Starting ooffice from the cli opens up the shell, but from there any
>>attempt to open one of the actual programs freezes the window. Starting
>>oowrite, oocalc, etc, simply shows the splash dialog running to completion,
>>which then stays in place forever.
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> No idea... try to run it from inside strace maybe? Do an lsof -n | grep
> oowriter or whatever once it is frozen?
Thanks for the strace tip. It was hanging trying to connect to an
unresponsive network printer through cups. I deleted this printer from the
cups list and that did it, but I'd argue that OO should recover more
gracefully from this kind of problem.
>>Display doesn't shut off
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> ACPI prob? Maybe try to fiddle with ACPI=blah on kernel commandline.
I'll try a few options and see what happens.
Thanks for all your help,
f.
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