[arch-general] Xscreensaver corrupts ext4 / partition

[Thayer Williams]

On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 7:14 PM, Javier Vasquez <j.e.vasquez.v at gmail.com> wrote:
>  Bad thing that xscreensaver corrupted / so that it couldn't be
> unlocked, and under console there was no way to loging, some misplaced
> inodes or something...
>
> Hard reboot was required, and then at first /tmp was so corrupted that
> it was necessary a phisical fix...

I can't seem to connect the dots here. How do you propose that it was
xscreensaver that corrupted ext4?

While it does sound like your ext4 partition may be corrupted, that
doesn't mean that xscreensaver is to blame; rather it was just another
victim.  If the partition is corrupted then reinstalling package xyz
isn't going to fix it.  You need to wipe it and rebuild.

AFAIK there are no known issues with xscreensaver corrupting a
filesystem and it seems rather unlikely.  The much more likely case is
that somehow your partition did become corrupted, but it wasn't
noticed until some time after xscreensaver kicked in.