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Hi, I was in X-Windows the other day, and in the middle of running TeX and Ghostscript, the system suddenly exited from X-Window and dropped back to the login prompt (VT 1). The message on VT 7 (where X runs) was: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 0 The system did not seem to die. There was still the login prompt, and I could still log in. There were no other messages in /var/adm/syslog or /var/adm/messages to give a clue. I then tried to do # telinit s to check the file system. But curiously, when I got to the prompt for root password, the password showed up on the console and nothing happened after I entered it in (and hit the return key, of course). Hitting control-D did nothing, and control-C just restarted the system again. I then shut down the system completely (kill all processes, umount all file systems, etc.), and restarted the system. This time, however, telinit worked correctly; i.e., root password was not shown on the screen, and the system dropped into single user mode. I then umount the root partition and e2fsck all the file systems. Nothing out of the ordinary came up, everything seemed to be fine. Anybody know what this means? Should I be worried about hardware failure? Regards, Sidney Li lih at polaroid.com
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