Some times the the file manager (Nautilus) does not show up. if I want to reboot the PC at that point for some reason, the Actions->logout won't respond. Terminal does not open for a while .... instead of waiting for all this to happen I was playing with pushing the power button. I have done this several times. At one time I see this corruption. I am using this in a lab environment. I guess my question is why pushing power button causes this random writes ?? This is so happened that some of the kernel header files are corrupted (some junk characters in a header file) and could not compile a kernel module ... I know I need to do proper shutdown. What if this happens? How do I protect this ... ? Thanks /Murali <div>On 7/12/05, Mike McCarty <<a href="mailto:mike.mccarty@sbcglobal.net">mike.mccarty@sbcglobal.net</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Muralidhar Ganga wrote: >Hi, > >Running Fedora Core 3. > >Pushing power cycle button (without proper shutdown), when the system is >not responding causes the corruption (or random writes) of some kernel >header files in /lib/modules/.... > >Thanks >/Murali > > > I can believe that a force shutdown like that could corrupt anything. What exactly are you hoping to get as a response to this message? Mike -- p="p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}";main(){printf(p,34,p,34);} This message made from 100% recycled bits. I can explain it for you, but I can't understand it for you. I speak only for myself, and I am unanimous in that! -- fedora-list mailing list <a href="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com">fedora-list@redhat.com</a> To unsubscribe: <a href="http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list"> http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list</a> </blockquote></div> -- Regards, Murali