On Thu, 10 Apr 2014 20:30:13 -0700 Stephen Barr <wil...@sonic.net> wrote:
> when it fouls up file names This sounds like file system corruption resulting from a kernel panic. I would go as far to presume that occasionally it takes forever to reboot on such a lockup because it caught a forced fsck of the affected filesystem. What I would do is turn to the logs for clues looking for anything like error, hardware, hunk task, soft lockup, etc etc they usually jump right out at you. You could try installing something like mcelog or even take the machine out of action for lots of hours and run a memory test against your current ram. I would also probably run a manual fsck of the filesystem and dump the results into a file to sift through. That's all just scratching the surface through. Back to moving to Debian, just make sure you have a copy of your data and pick the most fun way someone here suggests and try it. You'll either screw up and learn something or succeed and learn something. -- Lay on, MacDuff, and curs'd be him who first cries, "Hold, enough!". -- Shakespeare -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140411073435.5638a...@t410.mrqueue.com