On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 01:46, Robert L. Cochran wrote: > 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 > this sounds like a hardware prob affecting X - try memtest or cutting down the clock speed of your cpu (worked for me) > > -- > Psyche-list mailing list > Psyche-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list -- Linux, Gnome what more do you need http://www.redtux.demon.co.uk
