My system suddenly giving me grief after a power outage...
by FTIO from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6D466)
Hiya gang,
I got back the other day to find the house had no electricity and the computer's UPS was doing its job okay it seemed, in that the monitor was turned off and the computer wasn't running...except, the main power button was 'blinking'. I've never seen this before.
Now, when I click on an icon on the desktop or the thing at the bottom with a few more icons, I get some kind of message that makes no sense, and I can click 'OKAY' on it and it goes away and the app I clicked on pops up.
For instance, on the tray (or whatever it's called) I'll click on the 'konsole' icon. Before the program comes up, a box with the following appears:
Code:Configuration file "/home/bobo/.config/konsolerc" not writable. Please contact your system administrator. (with an 'OKAY' button) When I click the 'OKAY' button, that box goes away and konsole comes up.
It's doing this with pretty much any program I click on, even from the menu. All of them pretty much complaining that the /home/bobo/.config/<whatever-it-is>rc
I tried opening krusader and it gave the same box as above, then another box after I closed that one with something different:
Code:krusader's configuration file is in READ ONLY mode (why is that!?) Changed values will not be saved. Yes, it literally had that in the box '(why is that!?)'.
I try to open another browser, for example Seamonkey, and it pops up a box telling me it's already running and I have to stop it or restart the system to get it to work, yet whan I look in processes, it's not running, *BUT*, Firefox is 'supposedly' using anywhere from 93% upwards to 146% CPU, fluctuating all over the place between there.
Rebooting the system has not helped anything, and once even it couldn't get to the KDE desktop and stopped at the login shell. When I rebooted again from there, it made it to KDE desktop, but still all the same problems.
I *think* I happened to see something in all that scroll-by stuff at boot, about something having no space left or something like that.
I'm not sure why that is or how it could be, as I have two 465GB NVME drives and a 3TB HDD. One NVME is strictly for all things root and swap and /boot, the other 465GB NVME is /home and it should only have around 90GB used on it last I checked. The HDD I use for my music and movies and any security cam videos I want to save. 32GB of RAM. All NVME's and HDD using reiserfs (which I've used since the year 2000 on *all* my systems).
This is Slackware 15.0 x86_64, kept up-to-date with slackpkg (except for the last kernel which I haven't installed yet) weekly. As far as I can find, there's no 'shutdown' for the UPS this computer is connected to, other than simply what I found in Slackpackage.org for this APC unit.
The kalarm is also giving the same problems, mostly about the inability to write or save anything to <wherever>.
Oh! My facebook page won't load anymore. It stops at a blank screen no matter how many times I refresh. Also, Firefox *seems* to still be able to use all the saved data (passwords, etc), but when restarting it, it says there's another instance of it (there isn't) and needs to be stopped or the system restarted, and it always wants to try to get me to reload any/all tabs from the last time...even though I used only the one main tab.
Does anyone have any idea at all what may have happened and what I might try to remedy this weirdness?
I got back the other day to find the house had no electricity and the computer's UPS was doing its job okay it seemed, in that the monitor was turned off and the computer wasn't running...except, the main power button was 'blinking'. I've never seen this before.
Now, when I click on an icon on the desktop or the thing at the bottom with a few more icons, I get some kind of message that makes no sense, and I can click 'OKAY' on it and it goes away and the app I clicked on pops up.
For instance, on the tray (or whatever it's called) I'll click on the 'konsole' icon. Before the program comes up, a box with the following appears:
Code:Configuration file "/home/bobo/.config/konsolerc" not writable. Please contact your system administrator. (with an 'OKAY' button) When I click the 'OKAY' button, that box goes away and konsole comes up.
It's doing this with pretty much any program I click on, even from the menu. All of them pretty much complaining that the /home/bobo/.config/<whatever-it-is>rc
I tried opening krusader and it gave the same box as above, then another box after I closed that one with something different:
Code:krusader's configuration file is in READ ONLY mode (why is that!?) Changed values will not be saved. Yes, it literally had that in the box '(why is that!?)'.
I try to open another browser, for example Seamonkey, and it pops up a box telling me it's already running and I have to stop it or restart the system to get it to work, yet whan I look in processes, it's not running, *BUT*, Firefox is 'supposedly' using anywhere from 93% upwards to 146% CPU, fluctuating all over the place between there.
Rebooting the system has not helped anything, and once even it couldn't get to the KDE desktop and stopped at the login shell. When I rebooted again from there, it made it to KDE desktop, but still all the same problems.
I *think* I happened to see something in all that scroll-by stuff at boot, about something having no space left or something like that.
I'm not sure why that is or how it could be, as I have two 465GB NVME drives and a 3TB HDD. One NVME is strictly for all things root and swap and /boot, the other 465GB NVME is /home and it should only have around 90GB used on it last I checked. The HDD I use for my music and movies and any security cam videos I want to save. 32GB of RAM. All NVME's and HDD using reiserfs (which I've used since the year 2000 on *all* my systems).
This is Slackware 15.0 x86_64, kept up-to-date with slackpkg (except for the last kernel which I haven't installed yet) weekly. As far as I can find, there's no 'shutdown' for the UPS this computer is connected to, other than simply what I found in Slackpackage.org for this APC unit.
The kalarm is also giving the same problems, mostly about the inability to write or save anything to <wherever>.
Oh! My facebook page won't load anymore. It stops at a blank screen no matter how many times I refresh. Also, Firefox *seems* to still be able to use all the saved data (passwords, etc), but when restarting it, it says there's another instance of it (there isn't) and needs to be stopped or the system restarted, and it always wants to try to get me to reload any/all tabs from the last time...even though I used only the one main tab.
Does anyone have any idea at all what may have happened and what I might try to remedy this weirdness?