Hi everybody, I will try to make this story short, because the problem is fixed already, after many hours working. My customer tried to make a tar file of its $HOME/dom. This tar has been made using root, in order to take every file. Result : 1 tar file of 8Go ! Well, he tried to open this tar file using file-roller gui command. Everything froze BEFORE UNTAR (I thing file-rooler is reading or expanding the list of the files ). Ctrl-C , Ctrl Alt backspace ; Ctr Alt Del ... Nothing worked. Force reboot after 10 mn -> then impossible to boot ... init ..canno't execute rc.sysinit ...id 1 respawning too fast ... Jan 20 16:13:48 dom init: cannot execute "/etc/rc.d/rc" etc..etc... Well let's go to the rescue mode. I read a lot about this, about the right of the files, about missing links with bash...until I discover that the system HAD LOST about 10 command-files and symbolic links under /bin, as grep,awk, etc...etc... Cpying back these files from a clean RH8 machine, one by one, the machine is now back normally to work. Well, my customer told me that he NEVER deleted those files, and I believe him (Yes I can). /var/log/message show me : Jan 20 15:39:16 dom (Server)[2241]: laQueue: Write_pid: write failed - No space left on device .../... Jan 20 15:49:16 dom (Server)[2244]: laQueue: Write_pid: write failed - No space left on device Jan 20 15:53:35 dom gconfd (root-2161): Failed to flush client add to saved state file: No space left on device Jan 20 15:53:35 dom gconfd (root-2161): Could not write saved state file '/root/.gconfd/saved_state.tmp' fd: 26: No space left on device The '/root/.gconfd/saved_state.tmp' was inexistant on the machine after recue mode reboot. NO filesystems were 100% used. So this is my question. COULD a / file-systems temporary full, or a force reboot be the reason of loosing those files ? I really don't get it... I will write this message also on the file-roller mailing list but I am now open to any comments or suggestions...or similar problems. Anyway, it is not directly related to RH8 (or maybe it is), but I think posting this mail could help some people who are ready to tar their $HOME and open it via file-roller. And NO, we did not try to reproduce the bug ... I feel quite tired about fixing it ;-) Cheers, Philippe -- Philippe, Chiangmai, Thailand -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
