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List:       zaurus-general
Subject:    Re: [Zaurus-general] Z lock up - can it be prevented
From:       blackie () blackie ! dk (Jesper K !  Pedersen)
Date:       2002-08-16 6:15:28
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James Oakley <jfunk@funktronics.ca> writes:

| On August 15, 2002 07:47 am, Jesper K. Pedersen wrote:
| > Hi.
| > A couple of times my Z has locked up when I rebooted it, and it was not
| > possible to get it alive again without doing a battery reset, which erased
| > all memory (including the part where programs and data was located)
| >
| > Does anyone know
| > 1) what happens
| > 2) How to recover from this
| > 3) ... or how to prevent it?
| 
| I've had this happen to me. I've learned the hard way never to type 'reboot' 
| on the Z's command line...
Well it actually also happened ones I did a reboot from the graphical user
interface, so is there another way to restart the Z?

| I managed to get it up and running again by removing the battery and replacing 
| it. My data was intact, but the Z did an e2fsck on boot. Sigh, I wish we had 
| journalling on the Z. Ext2 is so fragile.
hmmm every time my data has been destroyed.


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