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

Jack O'Quin joq at io.com
Thu May 6 14:07:56 EDT 2004


Eric Dantan Rzewnicki <rzewnickie at rfa.org> writes:

> > 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!

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

I agree with Paul, it sure sounds like either bad RAM or a bad disk
(or disk controller).  Try running memtest86 (it's a boot option).
-- 
  joq



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