Re: Help! E/Gnome system crash

["Brandon S. Allbery" <allbery ece cmu edu>]

In message <370FCD3E.70022EBD@verdesoft.net>, Aaron Prohaska writes:
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| Once restarted it behaved fine foe a while. So again I proceeded to
| start playing with settings again. Only this time everything completely
| locked up! I don't remember exactly what I was doing at the time since
+--->8

At a guess, you ran out of swap space.  Some aspect(s) of GNOME (or Gtk+?)
seem to cause the X server to grab lots of memory and never release it; I
find that I have exit and restart the X server periodically to free up all my
swap space (at home; I never stay logged in at work because it's a major pain
in the butt when my AFS token expires, my home directory being in AFS...).

(This, BTW, is XF86_SVGA 3.3.3.1.)

| *** An error has occurred during the filesystem check.
| *** Dropping you to a shell; the system will reboot
| *** When you leave the shell
| Give root password for maintenance
| (or type Control-D for normal startup):
| 
| So know I have to figure out how to get the system working again. That
| is where I am at now.
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Enter the root password, then manually run fsck on the root file system.
e2fsck is extremely paranoid, and bails out in many cases where most *ixes'
fsck programs will simply correct the problem and continue.

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