Re: ack! help!!!! something went dreadfully wrong!

There seems to be a problem with your harddisk...
Maybe the upgrade also upgraded your kernel?
You should restart your machine again, maybe switch it off for a minute.

Tobi
Am Donnerstag, 08. Januar 2004 11:56 schrieb Savanna:
> help!! =( please help =(
>
> i did the entire apt-get upgrade, with dpkg -i --force-
> all /var/blah/blah/<package>.deb where appropriate. it updated everything
> without a hitch.
>
> but now i can't really use it!
>
> okay here's what happens. i restarted my machine properly (just cuz i
> wanted to make a nice clean start after it upgraded everything)...
>
> and now i get serious problems. in console mode, it's broadcasting the
> following message every second:
>
> hdb: dma_intr: status=0x51 ( DriveReady SeekComplete Error )
> hdb: dma_intr: error=0x40 ( UncorrectablError ), LBAsect=19451923, high=1,
> low=2674707, sector=19451856
> end_request: I/O error, dev 03:41 (hdb), sector 19451856
>
>
> that's spamming my screen every second in console mode. in KDE startup mode
> (automatically where it starts up), it pauses at the loading peripherals
> part of the kde startup window...and then the startup window just goes
> away, leaving the desktop background from the login screen, the arrow, and
> nothing else. nothing is happening, the computer is totally stuck in this
> loop! what can i do?
>
> please help..this is my work/desktop machine...what can i do? obviously
> something went wrong with my upgrade someplace..it was working fine before.
> =( please please help...