[Novalug] Something Strange
Paul W. Frields
stickster@gmail.com
Fri Feb 4 09:21:53 EST 2011
On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 09:22:33PM -0500, Dan Arico wrote:
> I was downloading e-mail using Kmail when I lost my internet connection.
> Afterwords kmail slowed to a crawl. I killed it and tried to continue the work
> I had been doing. Dolphin had also slowed to a crawl. I tried rebooting. Then
> Dolphin wouldn't come up at all.
>
> My internet connection came back up so I tried bringing kmail back up. This
> time it wouldn't start. Instead, I got a message window showing mysql errors -
> specifically, corrupted files.
>
> When in doubt, google. Firefox wouldn't start. Nor would opera.
>
> I switched to my wife's computer and couldn't find much on-line other than
> general discussions of corrupted databases.
>
> By now, only the shell would load on my computer. I found NFS was still
> working normally so I copied some critical files over to my laptop just to
> make sure they were backed up. (my current work files)
>
> Then pulled out my installation disk, booted from it and picked "update". Half
> an hour later, everything was completely restored except for a couple of minor
> tweaks. Whatever had been corrupted was overwritten and I lost nothing in the
> process.
>
> OpenSUSE 11.3 running on a 64-bit Intel processor.
>
> Anybody have any ideas what happened?
This is purely a WAG since I can't read the relevant system/error
logs, but a full disk partition (especially the one containing /home
or /tmp) is a possible culprit.
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