I run f-prot on occasion and I get a Segmentation fault error and it stops. It does this in different directories on different occasions. I noticed that in KDS System Guard, it lists the process status as "disk sleep". What is that? It is not running at all. No CPU time or nothing. I also can't get a kill -9 pid command to kill it. It doesn't return a error or anything, it just doesn't go away.
I have also noticed that when this happens some things won't open. Example, I can be in File Manager - Super User and click on a config file, or any text file, and it says it can't launch kwrite. I can go into a term as root and launch kwrite and open the file just fine.
I have also noticed that sometimes when it is really bad that I get can't umount errors when shutting down. I only have one hard drive that contains the OS. My second drive is for data only. So it has to be spinning right?
I think I have a bad setting somewhere but I don't know where to even start.
One more tidbit, I can reboot and everything goes back to normal. I don't usually shut down this rig. It is sometimes up for weeks. It does this even on a fresh install sometimes.
Any ideas on what the heck is going on??? Anybody ever seen anything like this?
Thanks guys
Just in case. /etc/fstab file
/dev/hda6 / ext3 defaults 1 1
/dev/hda5 /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
/dev/hda7 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/hdd,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
/dev/hdb1 /mnt/windows vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda1 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hda9 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hda10 /mnt/gentoo reiserfs rw 0 0
/dev/hda8 /mnt/gentoo/boot ext3 rw 0 0
/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd /mnt/cdrecorder auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0
/etc/mtab file
/dev/hda6 / ext3 rw 0 0
none /proc proc rw 0 0
none /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs rw 0 0
none /dev devfs rw 0 0
/dev/hda5 /boot ext3 rw 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts rw,mode=0620 0 0
/dev/hda7 /home ext3 rw 0 0
none /mnt/cdrom supermount ro,dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount ro,dev=/dev/hdd,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
none /mnt/floppy supermount rw,sync,dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
/dev/hdb1 /mnt/windows vfat rw,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
/dev/hda10 /mnt/gentoo reiserfs rw 0 0
/dev/hda8 /mnt/gentoo/boot ext3 rw 0 0
edit: forgot to put a "." at the end of a sentence. I don't know what is worse my tpying or my pofradin.