xmikeox
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Posted: Aug. 03 2006,20:42 |
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If your like me you've been scrolling away in firefox maybe looking for home renovation projects or while playing some music with xmms in the background, then all of a sudden BAM! you mouse is stuck and the OS is frozen well when you force shutdown you might see something like this when dsl trys to reboot
| Quote | xauth: error in locking xauthority
xauth: error in locking xauthority
xauth: error in locking xauthority
xauth: error in locking xauthority
file /home/dsl/.Xauthority
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yeah it sucks. To recover from this lets first remount the HD. Directly after the error message is shown type:
| Quote | | # mount -n -o remount,rw / |
now it should insert a return and send you to a new line in which you will type:
this is to repair whatever damages the hd suffered from the force shutdown. Let it do it's thing going all the way up to 100%, however if it says the hd is CLEAN then you want to reboot (the safe non-forced way) by telling the terminal:
| Quote | | sudo shutdown -r now |
in case you curious the -r is for restart and now is telling the terminal you want to resart RIGHT now.
I hope someone out there can use this, I know that when I first was in this situation I had no idea what to do
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