Re: new user doesn't crash

["Scott C. Linnenbringer" <sl@panix.com>]

On 25 Oct 2003 10:07:19 -0500, "Stephen D. Reindl" <sreindl@apci.net>
wrote: 

> Several short power failures within a week. Just long enough to cause
> a reboot while logged in as user steve.
> 
> Afterward my X session would randomly lock up while logged in as
> steve. Eventually X would crash so severely the it would cause the
> machine to completely reboot.
> 
> I made a new user, as a random attempt to troubleshoot, and have been
> logged in as that user for the past several days with no problems. It
> would appear that steve's config files are corrupted. The file system
> has had fsck run on it several times. There were never any backups
> made.
> 
> 2 questions. Does anyone think that user is recoverable, and if not,
> what is the easiest way to convert the one user environment over to
> the other. Root is fine. I'm thinking I'll have to import each app,
> one at a time, especially my address book and sane setup.

What filesystem are you running? This sounds, to me, like disk
corruption. I used to have numerous problems of this sort when running
XFS, but since I started using ext3 again, my system has been noticably
more stable and even faster.

Power failures with XFS have traditionally been known to do some serious
damage. No doubt that was the same with me.


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