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Skriven 2006-08-03 07:10:56 av WAYNE CHIRNSIDE (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MARTIN ATKINS
Ärende: Hijacked
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-> WC> Having recently run memtest86 it's reassuring to know my memory ( the
-> WC> computer's RAM that is), is sound.

-> How recently? Things can go wrong over night and just because it
-> coincides with this hard disk problem doesn't mean they are related.

3-4 days before the problem showed up.

-> WC> Progress here but not entirely out of the woods yet.

-> I have just had a problem that is eerily similar to yours.
                                      
My sympathies.

-> I booted my system and for some reason the first partition was
-> maxed out and wouldn't startx because there wasn't any room
-> on /dev/hda5. I knew this was wrong because that partition is
-> is over 3 gig and only carries root, boot and etc and what have
-> you. I did "df" and indeed it was full.

-> I deliberately crashed the system so i could do a partition scan
-> at the next boot. Boy did it scream about the full disk.

-> Here is similarity with yours in that it kept on about /boot/boot.030
-> and although i could get the prompt i couldn't startx.

Gads, you got it.
It said it wasn't writable.
I zero'ed out the drive.
Still appear to have a problem though.
Could have migrated back to the drive though.

-> I thought the worse and decided to back up the stuff on the low
-> level directory that i thought would help me if i needed to
-> reformat /dev/hda5. I used "mc" but just as i was about to get 
-> committed i decided to move every thing of that partition
-> i could and still have a working system. The idea being that
-> i might just free up enough room for X to start. I cleared
-> 8 meg and bingo it was enough. I looked over the directory
-> but couldn't identify where all that space had gone.

-> I noticed though that Firefox wouldn't work and even if i called
-> an old version i had i still got nothing. I'm using Mandrive 2006

Same here.

-> which has a prog that backs up all configuration files and
-> fortunately had backed up everything a few days previous.

-> I set it to reinstall and over write all configs, rebooted
-> and the problem was solved. Although Firefox still wouldn't
-> work (possibly because i had played with things). I reinstalled
-> the newest F/F version i had and tested it. As soon as it started
-> it upgraded it self to v 1.5.05. Coincidence???

-> I strongly suspect that Mozilla-Firefox had something to do with
-> this. Wow just as i was writing this message it updated to v 1.5.06.
  
I know Mozilla was related to one of my problems however it
appears I've a second problem.

-> Two updates in a week or so? Something is going on over there
-> so if i were you i would poke around Mozilla and see if there
-> is any chatter about this.
                              
Been there recently but shall check back.
Last trip they warned against a trojan and the only advice was
don't get it in the first place.

-> I can't confirm any strangeness with mail as i use Kmail so
-> when you get up and running again it might be a good idea to
-> use an unrelated mail client to the browser you use.

Yeah, I went to Kmail.

-> I think that /boot/boot.030 thing is not related to the problem
-> as i still have it in my /boot directory and it appears to be a 
-> grub thing. Strange though 'cos i don't use grub but the way they
-> mess with this stuff it might just be needed if i wished to change
-> the boot loader.

-> I'm pleased that through experience i always make a separate
-> partition /opt or /local last on the disk and this carries all
-> downloaded aps and backups but absolutely plays no part in 
-> the actual day to day running of the system.
->  
-> I think this virus (if that is what it is) is poking itself into the
-> /boot directory or is in the Mozilla files somewhere.

-> Best bet is it's triggered by Mozilla.

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