On Sat, 2005-07-30 at 12:00 +0200, Andy Pieters wrote: > HI all > > I am a huge fan of Linux and Fedora in particular. I just bought another low > budget pc with windows xp on so I could test how my software (php/xml) looks > on internet explorer. Again it filled me with joy that I switched to Linux > almost a year ago, for that windows box BSODed on me within the first fifteen > minutes! (actually while trying to uninstall AOL) (BSOD=Blue Screen of Death > = Kernel Error) No-one on this list won't know what a BSOD is. > > Still, one thing that windows handles well are bad cd's. When a cd fails, the > whole os doesn't come crashing down. I was just ripping the cd Europe > 1982-1992 on my Linux box and listening to my collection with amaroK. > Suddenly the system got in an endless loop. The 5 seconds of music in the > play buffer were repeated over and over again. I ejected the cd but that > didn't save the system. I tried also to ssh in but that wasn't possible > either. It didn't respond to pusing the poweroff button and the only > solution was forced power off. > > With kind regards > > > Andy I've never heard of this cd. Is it new? Is it copy protected? >From a terminal windows, run this while ripping the cd: tail -f /var/log/messages See any errors?
