Hi Deboo, On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 10:43:25PM +0530, Deboo wrote: > At times while shutting down the system, I have seen that init doesn't > start the kill processes and the machine just reboots or turns off > suddenly, without unmounting the partitions which causes lots of troubles > the next time the machine boos. Just yesterday, this happened again and at
Check /etc/rc0.d . It should contain these symlinks, among others: S20sendsigs S40umountfs S90halt . These are executed one after the other and do what their names say. If they *are* there, check your syslog for unusual messages. > the next boot, fsck ran and most of the time after running fsck, I am > brought to a single user prompt and get some inconsistency error and it > says that I should manually run fsck. Now if there were such errors, then > why does it waste time running fsck automatically and wasting my time? Why > does this happen is beyond my reach. Can someone explain what to do? > > > My root partition is 10 GB. I used to make it small, a separate /var, /usr > and a big home partition. But quite sometime ago, many people on this list > suggested me to make just one big partition if I were to remain on the > safe side but now by experience, I guess it's better to have many small > partitions than one big root partition. Atleast it saves the time when > fscking. You are right. But still, try to find the mistake. > > Regards, > Deboo HTH -- Joachim Fahnenmüller # Hi! I'm a .signature virus. Copy me into # your ~/.signature to help me spread! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
