[linux-audio-user] System freeze (was Re: [ecasound] ecasound 2.3.3 released)

[Eric Dantan Rzewnicki]

On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 01:13:30PM -0400, Paul Winkler wrote:
> On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 12:42:43PM -0400, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote:
> > I managed to get my system back (though I'm pretty sure it's not in good
> > order). My file system was a total mess. There were around 2000 items in
> > /lost+found. sed, tar, and vi (at least) were completely missing. man
> > was rsync. My dpkg/apt database was totally hosed. Much of what should
> > have been symlinks under /etc/alternatives/ was some sort of data file.
> > And so on, and so on ...
> Eeeyuck. That sounds like what happened to me when a hardware
> failure (bad RAM) totally hosed my ext2 filesystem a few years back.
> The inodes were basically randomized.
> Glad you got the important stuff back!

yuck is right. :-}

I wasn't too worried, my audio is all on a separate drive, that
fortunately didn't get scrambled at all as far as I can see.

I still need to make sure some of my ecasound eci python scripts I've
been working on are still ok. I think they are.

I really hope this isn't a hardware problem ...

-Eric Rz.