[arch-general] Xscreensaver corrupts ext4 / partition

Damjan Georgievski gdamjan at gmail.com
Mon Jan 25 18:47:18 EST 2010


> Hmm, let me rephrase my initial statement.  The only initial symptom
> was xscreensaver.  It was running when all of sudden the FS got
> corrupted and I couldn't loging, not from xscreensaver, not from
> console, etc.
>
> At this point I have a pretty stable system.  Nothing fails.  Only
> when I loads xscreensaver (xscreesaver-demo), then the system doesn't
> freeze but an equivalent thing happens, although the window manager is
> up, I can't get any command to work, everything fails due to libraries
> issues, starting from xscreensaver itself which is not able to load
> gnome.so I believe.

Test your memory first. (use memtest86+ for that)
I'd suggest to test the memory of your graphic card too if I knew how
to do that.


-- 
damjan


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