Subject: Re: box problem
From: Jim Gribbin (jgribbin@alaska.net)
Date: Tue Apr 15 2003 - 01:18:41 AKDT
I believe I figured it out. It's looking like if after scanning an image
to a folder on the disk and refreshing that folder under Nautilus so
that the icon shows, I don't want to select the menu for that icon
before the refresh finishes. I suspect it gets two actions attempting to
open the file for writing at the same time.
Jim Gribbin
On Mon, 2003-04-14 at 20:37, Jim Gribbin wrote:
> Not quite sure how to describe this. I was doing some scanning this AM
> and my box got tied up with a process to the point it wouldn't do
> anything else. Drive access light was on solid. Couldn't access another
> terminal to shut it down or anything as when I would attempt logging in
> with another terminal, I couldn't get the password prompt.
>
> When I rebooted, everything was OK for a couple of minutes. Then the
> drive access light was on more and more until I could no longer access
> the system again.
>
> Rebooted once more and started checking logs for an unusually large one.
> 'lastlog' was in excess of 18M and full of nothing but '/tty1_|tty1'
> (that first character is actually a divisor symbol, but I couldn't
> figure out how to put that in my email).
>
> I looked for and tried killing the one process dealing with tty1. I
> couldn't kill it, but my box seems to be OK now. Don't know what will
> happen when I reboot though.
>
> Can anybody give me some pointers on troubleshooting this?
>
> Jim Gribbin
>
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