A Curious Problem (seemingly resolved, thankfully, but still.....)

[ms]

On 23/11/10 20:59, Nathan Bahn wrote:
> Has anyone ever encountered an issue wherein all (and I do mean ALL) of the
> changes made within a partition disappeared -- or were reverted -- when the
> machine rebooted?
>
> My machine is set up to dual-boot Ubuntu 10.10 and openSUSE 11.3 with a 3rd
> partition holding the files from another hard drive that was crapping out.
> The 1st hint of a problem that arose after the rebooting was that the
> torrent files (not the actual files that were downloaded -- those I have
> stored in the 3rd partition) had disappeared from the Transmission program.
> Then I noticed that the sound was gone! (And by the way, I wish to express
> my gratitude to Basil Chupin; I was able to remember just enough of his
> instructions to get ALSA working properly again -- exactly why PulseAudio
> interferes with ALSA is something I simply do NOT understand!) So now I'm
> slowly restoring the settings (Next job:  Restoring all of the fonts that
> were erased from OOo.) but would like to be able to avoid this problem from
> recurring; hence my question.

Was the partition mounted?
Sounds like you wrote etc. in the *mount point* directory without having 
actually mounted the partition.

Try to unmount the partition and check if in the mount point there are 
some unexpected files :)

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Massimo Sandal, Ph.D.
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