Nothing :-( (otherwise I'd have given the info). This is
understandable, since the disk becomes "locked", that is,
inaccessible. There are also no messages on the console. The machine
still tries to answer. If you press enter at the console you get a
login prompt, you type the user name and <enter>, the password prompt
appears but then no more answers. You can switch vt's, but the same
happens.
I've been using quotas for some weeks already, and the crash never
happened. Several users have filled their quota on /home, without
problems. The news SEEM to be that this time a user has filled his
quota on the /var partition, where the mail arrives. Could this
lockout be caused by a root process (the mail delivery agent) trying
to write beyond the user's quota on a user's file? Root has no
quotas...
The machine runs with raid5 on all partitions, and two aic7xxx
adapters, but this has no influence on the problem. It's enough to
turn quotas off, as they're now, and the machine is rock solid.
Carlos
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