[PLUG] Bad shutdown and file system damage

[Paul Heinlein]

On Mon, 11 Oct 2004, Ovid wrote:

> Yesterday, my FC2 box hung.  And hung.  And hung.  Nothing I did 
> seemed to have any effect, even hitting the reset switch on the 
> front.  I was eventually forced to hit the power switch.
>
> When it rebooted, I opted for it to check my file system since I had 
> an unclean shutdown, but when it told me I had problems (yeah, my 
> mother says that, too) and dumped me to a command line, I didn't 
> know what to do so I rebooted rather than risk damaging things 
> further :(
>
> Now if I launch KDE it hangs.  I can launch fluxbox with no 
> problems, but I've been having some problems with fluxbox, too (they 
> predated the boot problem.)

This smells to me like hardware trouble. Does memtest86 fail in 
interesting way? Does your system have any builtin diagnostics? (Dells 
often do.)

--Paul Heinlein <heinlein at madboa.com>