[TriLUG] Ubuntu went nuts

[Jason Tower]

could also be a flaky IDE controller - i've had more than one mobo that 
exhibited similar behavior even with a known good drive.  less common 
than a bad disk but not unheard of.

Rock Roskam wrote:
> I agree except this is same box we played with long ago with RHCE.  If you do not shutdown cleanly it will not recognize the drive on next boot. Also the box will not shutdown cleanly. You have to do 2 boots for the drive to be recognized on the controller. Very annoying except with linux I do not reboot that often. I may be safer getting a new drive. Thanks.
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> Rock 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On Behalf Of Jason Tower
> Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 3:42 PM
> To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Ubuntu went nuts
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> sounds like a drive in its death throes (bios not seeing it, out of space errors).
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> Rock Roskam wrote:
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>>I have moved my wife over to Ubuntu.  Recently she said the system would not start and said no OS found.  Now when I try to reboot the system locks at trying to login in to gnome.  I tried switching to KDE and got an ICE authority error message.  If I do not login the system stays up and I can ssh in and even start freenx to bring up the user desktop.  However the systems seems to run slower than usual over freenx. We also go an out of disk space error message once but DF shows the main drive with 78% free.  Any ideas on where to start?  I have 2 kids who run around the house and randomly press keys occasioanally.
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>>Rock
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