How to bring Fedora Core 3 to its knees!

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 11:15:40PM -0400, Paul King wrote:
> Okay, kiddies! Here's what you do ... 
> Stick a defective CD in your CD-ROM bay and run the "find" command.
> It works until it comes to something wrong in one of the directories,
> then the kernel starts ripping through so many I/O errors (seemingly
> dozens per second), that your only choice is to reboot, even if you have
> files open. You can't bring down X (ctrl+alt+backsapce); you can't ctrl
> +alt+delete; you can't do SFA!
> 
> Works like a charm :-)
> 
> I am trying to build a database of my copious CDs I have accumulated
> over the years, and was lucky I made backups when I had to do this to an
> open database file.]

Could hit control-c and wait the 5 or 10 minutes it takes for the ide-cd
layer to stop retrying.  It will eventually stop, but it takes a while.
Rebooting is certainly not necesary in general.  Of course it is
possible one of the automounter/filemonitoring/other desktop crap that
they have running by default is causing the problem with the defective
cd, in which case who knows.

Len Sorensen
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