Re: HD Crash Related to Gnome?

[Beirne Konarski <beirne neo rr com>]

I had a lot of crashing problems running the Ximian Gnome distribution
with RedHat 7.  It got so bad that I lost my VMware virtual NT drive.  I
blame this on RedHat 7 rather than Gnome and have since switched to
Debian, where I have had very little trouble, eventhough I have been
experimenting with Evolution and Nautilus, both of which bring in lots
of new versions of Gnome packages.

Beirne


On 08 Apr 2001 10:09:25 -0400, Jay Bloodworth wrote:
> This is probably offtopic, but perhaps not, and some kind soul may be
> able to offer some constructive comments in any event.
> 
> Woke up this morning to find my RedHat 7 - Gnome 1.4B - Pentium III box
> was locked up: the screen was stuck on a screensaver frame, the HD light
> was lit, and no amount of mouse jiggling or key punching would wake it.
> Tried to reboot - it couldn't find lilo - used a boot disk - couldn't
> find the root partition.  After about 30 minutes I decided to turn it
> off and come back later, assuming I'd probably have to reinstall Linux
> and perhaps need a new HD.
> 
> I came back about an hour later, intending to check the bios in case
> some setting there had gotten screwed up.  LILO came right up, and I
> booted right into gdm (after fsck scrubbed some dirty partitions).  I
> didn't notice anything obvious in the logs indicating the source of the
> problem.
> 
> The GNOME related portion of the question is this: Is there anything in
> 1.4beta that may have caused this.  I'm wondering in particular about
> medusa, since I've read that people have had problems with it.
> 
> If it's not software, I assume it's a thermal issue, though this machine
> is usually up for weeks at a time with no problems.  I do occasionally
> hear rattling from the fan, but it usually stops after a few minutes.
> If anyone has experienced anything like this before, I'd appreciate
> hearing what preventitive or corrective measure you took.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jay
> 
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