>From Carlos Sousa on Monday, 2004-09-06 at 22:38:14 +0100: > On Mon, 6 Sep 2004 23:18:25 +0200 Conrad Newton wrote: > [...] > > It is not an answer to your question, and maybe it is not even > > relevant to your problem, but I am having similar problems > > here with tetex-base. When I try to correct the problem, > > I get a system crash or even trigger a reboot. > > > > The system is a mixture of testing and unstable (pinned to > > testing, but with several major applications upgraded). > > I have had numerous instabilities lately, and thought > > that I might improve the situation by upgrading to > > unstable (my unstable box works just fine), but instead > > things look worse than ever . . . > > > > For example, I was just going to try the following > > > > apt-get -f install > > dpkg --configure -a > > > > but already at the first step, I get a reboot!!!????!!! > > What could be causing this? > > Sure smells a lot like hardware trouble (memory?). Better be > ready with your backups...
I believe I have found the trouble: corruption of the reiserfs. Of course you may be right: that I have reiserfs corruption because of bad memory, but I will hope for the best now that I have corrected the problem. I finally got the box to crash with an error message: vs-500: unknown uniqueness 1684368227 google sent me directly to issues of reiserfs corruption. The box was fixed with a knoppix CD and reiserfsck --check /dev/hda3 reiserfsck --rebuild-tree /dev/hda3 Conrad -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
