Re: Spontaneous unclean reboots

On Sat, 20 Sep 2008 11:57:06 +0000, Curt wrote:

It started happening in X, with the Opera browser, the other day. I
would open the latter, and then get a black screen, because the system
was rebooting, with the file systems uncleanly unmounted. Then, in the
rebooting process, because the file systems were uncleanly unmounted,
fsck would be run--it would exit with *failed* after checking the root
file system and correcting some errors, demanding that the system be
rebooted. After this reboot fsck would proceed to check my home
partition and give the following message:

/dev/hda7: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY. (i.e., without
-a or -p options) fsck died with exit status 4

I would run fsck manually (from the provided root shell), saying "y" to
all the questions, which were not numerous (4 or 5). But every time I
tried to run Opera, the problem would reproduce itself. I cleverly
stopped running Opera.

Now today, I booted normally, logged in, and when I did my habitual
"startx", the system rebooted spontaneously, and uncleanly. fsck
corrected errors on my /, exiting with a *failed* and rebooting the
computer. After rebooting, fsck checked my home partition (/dev/hda7),
and I got this message:

[snip]

You need to boot with any Linux liveCD, so system's / partition will not
be mounted or in use, and run fsck on it. It is NEVER a good idea to run
fsck on an active partition.

Basically, I think the problem is Opera and not your system, X server or
otherwise. Your system ran okay until you started Opera, right? Did you
run a checksum on the Opera download before installing it? Have you
updated/upgraded your Etch install, so that it has the most current
libraries, kernel, etc?

Also, just because your system is 7 years old doesn't necessarily imply
it could be the problem. I've got an 8 year old one--1 GHz Duron, 512 MB
RAM. The newest hardware on it is a 5 or 6 year old graphics card I got
used to replace the 8 or 9 year old one, which died, that had replaced
the 10 or 12 year old one pulled from the previous system. The box has
no problems running current Linux or BSD distros. In fact, at one time,
I had 10 multi-booting OSes on it for testing and evaluation--Fedora Core
5, 6 and 8; PCLinuxOS 2007 Final, Freespire 1.1 and 2.0; Slackware
"something", Suse 10 (Didn't like it), FreeBSD and FreeDOS.

Stef

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