Mandrak 9.1 off the deep end on ocassion
From: Wanderer (Wanderer_at_someplace.com)
Date: 03/24/04
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Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 17:21:24 -0000
I've had to reinstall this whole distribution about every other month.
Other than it's lacking some things (like say migration from 9.1 to 9.2 to
10.0 without downloading ISO's that have no way of verifying there are
errors until you've wasted your entire months worth of bandwidth in
frustration).
Anyhow what happens is that it sometimes doesn't shutdown cleanly (like
every week) then it goes through the 'repair the bad partition' panic. Then
bit by bit the installation totally DIES. First networking goes heck if I
can find why it died (wading through the scripts is like wading through a
swamp).
So the questions are
1) why does it not shut down properly? It looks to me as if a process hangs
while it's being taken down ( I shut down one night and got up the next day
with the stupid thing still on complaining about something is still busy)
2) Why does the recovery process loose information or corrupt files?
Perhaps I need to add scripts to check for corruption of the last set of
configuration in /etc? Then recover damaged files as needed?
3) It corrupts the /root partition last of all. HOW it's always been
unmounted cleanly at least Mandrake says it is. Then another partition is
marked not being unmounted correctly. FINALLY it kills the root parition.
It's a steady progressive DEATH it seems.
So the real question is.. how can I not be cleaning up the mess on this
machine as it dies? I ran slackware on this very machine for 3 years NO
SUCH PROBLEMS EVER. Granted it was eons old but it still worked.
I will worry about USB devices not working when I don't have my computer
commiting hirikiri regularly.
Wanderer
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