Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 15 May 1999 21:27:01 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: APM-related crashes + ext2 instability |
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Hi!
> My Olivetti laptop has undergone two scary crashes lately. The sequence > seems to be: > 1. APM standby (suspend to disk works) > 2. After coming back, the keyboard doesn't work anymore (though the mouse > still moves, which indicates X and gpm are still alive) > 3. I can't reboot so I power-cycle the machine (I'll set up gpm to use its > "special command" feature someday, to be able to reboot with the mouse) > 4. After rebooting, fsck gives me errors in some essential part of the > system (the time before it was libc, now it is /bin/rm and > /bin/ls).
Strange. ext2 does not usually corrupt files it does not write to. I.e. it is something more than powercycle - I can not imagine how simple powercycle could corrupt file you did not write into.
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