I've been having some strange, but fairly predictable, problems with the disks in my system. If disk activity is very heavy for a long time---say, I'm downloading a lot of stuff---then, at some point, I start to get disk errors and the system will all but freeze up. The first sign is often an error from syslogd, saying it can't write to the log, but I can also get similar errors from (e.g.) akregator, saying it can't write to some file under $HOME. Other operations may continue to function at this time: E.g., the download will continue, and I can even start another one. But attempts to run commands can abort with "Input/Output error"---though not all commands may show this problem. This looks to me like some kind of hardware issue, but I'm not experienced here. Any advice welcome, especially concerning what I might do, other than replace the (expensive WD Raptor) disk. Richard -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
