Evolution evidently crashed my computer badly. After reading in a couple hundred emails, I started deleting the spam mails by clicking the trash can icon on each highlighted mail in the inbox viewer. Suddenly the machine reboots entirely! Kapow! Perhaps it was some other running process but I sure suspect Evolution. Perhaps it was also content in one particular email interacting with Evolution, but I'm not sure. My machine reboots...I start Evolution again...then everything freezes up totally. The whole system locks up. I'm not sure what is going on so I cut the power to the box to force a reboot. Maybe I should have tested the reset button instead, I forgot all about it. The subsequent reboot features a kernel panic that appears to have been caused by problems with the software RAID. I had to reboot out of that. I rebooted again, but the drive light is constantly on (for the last 90 minutes) and I notice a process named 'mdrecoveryd' running. The system is almost unusuable. with 96-99% CPU use. md issued messages saying it is syncing RAID array md1. What do I do, just let it sit and run? Thanks Bob Cochran Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
