Induced crashes
File-system trashed a number of times and this seemed to be associated
with a mounted cdrom. One trashing forced a reboot. Unfortunately the
typescript file was lost in the following e2fsck.
>From memory,
-something- panic
zalloc: zone threads exhausted.
After installing the packages from the cdrom using total.sh the script
unmounted the CD and "Resource lost" was displayed.
If the the CD remained mounted after installing the packages the HDD
thrashed about for quite a few minutes and the cdrom drive was also active
for a short period. Once everything had settled down the system was
rebooted and a manual e2fsck had to be made. The mess was so bad that
when the system was rebooted again immediately after the first reboot
another check was forced.
If the system was left for an hour or so the damage did not seem to occur
when packages were installed from the CD.
OK folk, what is causing the problem?
Phil.
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