I run Debian on my Latitude XPi, and something similar has happened. The battery will still run down during a suspend, and if it goes dry, it is the same as pulling the plug on a desktop. Even though I don't run ext3 here and don't know what the Debian policy is on startup, I know on Redhat, when the same thing happens, it gives you a few seconds to do an fsck, then just keeps going with the bootup. This completely hosed that drive. Maybe something similar here?
On 27 Mar 2003 09:25:56 -0700 "Gary Hennigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The other day I had a serious problem with my Debian laptop. I rarely > run it on batteries but a couple of days ago I did just that. After it > had been idle for around 2 hours I went to try and use it. No response > to any keys, so I powered it down. When it came back up the Debian > partition was totally corrupted. I must've let fsck run for 20 or 30 > minutes before I finally decided it wasn't going to be useable even > if the fsck ever finished. So I reinstalled. > > Has anyone ever seen this happen? My only vague suspicion is that it > tried to do a suspend-to-disk, or something similar, and that > corrupted my disk. Either that or I wasn't patient enough to wait > until it resumed from such a suspend (I probably waited about a minute > or so before I powered it down). > > The laptop is a Dell Latitude C840 and the partition type was ext3. It > was running a mixed testing/unstable version of Debian. I'd really > like to avoid a repeat of that problem, so if anyone knows what could > cause such an occurance I'd appreciate hearing about it. > > Thanks, > Gary > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Joey Bernard Programmer/Analyst, Projects Division CARIS 264 Rookwood Ave. Fredericton, New Brunswick Canada, E3B 2M2 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: (506) 462-4206 Web: www.caris.com This email contains confidential information for the addressee only. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify us immediately. You should not use, disclose or copy this communication if received in error. NO BINDING CONTRACT WILL RESULT FROM THIS EMAIL UNTIL SUCH TIME AS A WRITTEN DOCUMENT IS SIGNED ON BEHALF OF THE COMPANY. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
