Re: Spontaneous unclean reboots

On Sat, 20 Sep 2008 20:13:29 +0000, Curt wrote:

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*.

I would still fsck / just to make sure there are no errors, etc.
Thoroughness does have its advantages.

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.

Well, if you still have the .deb archive, checksum it. If not, don't use
Opera until you've eliminated as many of the other possible causes to
your reboot problem, then run Opera and see if the same thing happens.
If it does, uninstall it and reinstall from a new download, and see if
the reboots still occur.

Problems like this sometimes take weeks or months to solve and rectify.
Just eliminate each possible problem one by one.

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.

Have you check to see if the kernel was or is damaged. Or just install
one whose checksum is good. Of course, you could have corrupted
libraries, etc. or your hard drive could be slowly failing, which is a
good possibility, if the hard drive like the system is 7 years old.

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

Could be.
.

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