michelle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Mon, 15 Dec 2003 01:00:33 -0500: > Every time I perform a keypress at the console (command line, nano, etc.) I > can hear a tick from the hard disk.
That's exactly what I had a week before the Big Debian Compromise. Didn't happen in X, only console. Also, trying to install more debian packages failed through lack of disk space, despite me still having a few hundred megs left on the relevant partititons. If I rebooted into single user mode, or went via 'init 1', there were still a few processes more remaining around that I thought shouldn't be in runlevel 1, and the ticking still happened even if everything but the kernel threads and init were killed. There was a little bit more suspicious behaviour, but I put it down to a bad disk. I ran chkrootkit over it, but found nothing. I ran IBM diagnostics over the drive (IBM travelstar, in my notebook), and reinstalled debian, and then home directories etc from backup. It all behaves again now. > Also, compiling from the console is almost 4 times slower than compiling > from inside KDE3. This doesn't make sense to me. > > I get similar results for 2.2, 2.4, and 2.6 kernels. > Does anyone know what causes this? When did it start happening for you? I'm still a little suspicious. We are behind a strong university firewall, so can't possibly imagine that I was compromised (although while I was attempting to debug the situation (with no luck, of course), I did unplug the notwork) -- TimC -- http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/staff/tconnors/ I'm sorry. The number you have reached is imaginary. Please rotate your phone 90 degrees and try again. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
