On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 11:49:33AM -0400, Timothy Ball wrote:
> For reasons totatly not related to xfs (stupid nvidia) my machine went
> into a hardlock while I was editting my /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup file. I
> rebooted the machine and when xdm came back up I noticed that it
> wasn't configured the way I thought. Looking back at the file it was
> completely full of nulls. I suppose it's important for me to say I was
> editting the file in vim...
The FAQ entry[1] for this still holds. It's been revised to mention that
this happens much less with the newer kernels (like the one you have),
but during "extreme situations" (like yours, where you edited a small
file, wrote it, and then got the system hung cold) the binary null
issues will still happen. This happens to me quite a bit, too, when
mangling with something related to X and then getting the system frozen
by X11. Perhaps running `sync` after saving the file and before testing
what the changes did will help. :)
[1] http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/faq.html#nulls
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