Re: Spontaneous unclean reboots

On 2008-09-20, Stefan Patric <not@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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.

Well, it wasn't my root partition that fsck was complaining about and
asking me to check manually, but my home partition, which I fscked in
single user mode while it was *unmounted*.

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?

I didn't checksum the Opera deb (yes, bad form, I know). Debian Etch
(stable) only gets security updates. I'm up to date.

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

<snip>

I neglected to mention that I also had a kernel panic about three weeks
ago; I couldn't boot the system at all. I booted from a Knoppix live cd,
chrooted into / and ran lilo. There were warnings (which I have not
retained in my shrinking brain), but it resolved the problem, at least
momentarily.

I suppose it's all connected somehow, like a vast conspiracy.
.

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