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I had a weird situation on my computer, which ended with a panic, and |
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during that firefox-bin would not save target files consistently, and |
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would actually crash. I'll detail this situation first, |
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in case its relevant. I run stable CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" |
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Firstly rtorrent crashed with a segment fault. It restarted and worked. |
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The next day firefox-bin would not "save link as", I could navigate |
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to a directory, and on pushing "save" either nothing would happen or |
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firefox would crash. |
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I emerged the latest mozilla-firefox-bin without any trouble, but |
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almost every package in world failed MD5 verification on the tarball. |
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Realising I had either a file system or hard drive problem, I closed |
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KDE and used the console (as root) to clean up /var/tmp and /home in |
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anticipation of a backup/restore. During this the system |
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panic'd. |
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I booted the 2006.0 universal CD and did a "fsck -cfv /dev/hda6" (my |
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large root partition) |
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which reported some multiply chained blocks (nothing critical, part of |
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the portage tree, and something in KDE) , 1 lost file (web cookies) . |
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# grep hda6 /etc/fstab |
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/dev/hda6 / ext3 noatime |
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0 1 |
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I'm also puxxled why hda6 is never fsck'd during boot, I though having |
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that last 1 would check it every time. |
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After the fsck the system works normally, I emerged system & world |
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with no problems. |
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firefox-bin still refuses to save links, but no longer crashes, but |
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after some time idling, it eats all CPU and has to be kill -9'd. |
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I'm getting by with Konqueror, however Google Mail is not very nice in |
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this browser. |
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So not a big problem, just worried that it might be symptomatic of |
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something serious. |
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