Needed to reinstall parts of Gnome after hardware problem?

Wasn't sure exactly where to post this, but I suppose this is the best place for it. Thankfully, I've already solved my problem but I wonder if anyone has any ideas on why it was a problem in the first place.
Apparently, either my CPU or my motherboard does not like the dynamic CPU scaling of my Pentium-M processor. In Windows, my laptop would sometimes lock up to the point where all I could do was hold the power button to turn it off. Nothing else responds. I fixed this in Windows by changing my power settings so that the CPU stays at a constant speed (apparently, it's just the CHANGING speeds of the processor that screws it up... I can start my computer at either full speed or its lowest speed and as long as I don't try to change that, I'm in no danger of freezing up). Well, I got CPU scaling working in Linux and I had the same problem... hard lock up of my computer where all I could do was power it off.
However, when I booted back into Linux and tried to get into Gnome, my wallpaper, icons, theme, and parts of Gnome itself were not working. I couldn't even log out at one point and just had to kill the xserver. After some pacman reinstalls of Gnome, gnome-session, gnome-themes, gtk, and gtk2 everything seems to be working fine again. What do you think happened? I use ReiserFS for my filesystem, but after using reiserfsck from Knoppix there were no errors on my drive. It was really strange. At least everything is working now. :-)

DarkPath wrote:Wasn't sure exactly where to post this, but I suppose this is the best place for it. Thankfully, I've already solved my problem but I wonder if anyone has any ideas on why it was a problem in the first place.
interesting!
i was also using reiserfs3 on my pentium-m and after i installed (via pacman -U package....tar.gz) a package i had just built (it was nothing wrong with it, it contained a couple of files in /opt/ and no .install script...), a bunch of my files in /var and /opt disappeared. among them: gdm files, gnome icons, gnome desktop... some fonts.. i couldn't start X.
so: that was it? i don't know, the files just weren't there anymore. anyway, i sent my notebook back to check whether there is something wrong with its harddisk.
i don't believe it's reiserfs's fault. at least not reiserfs3.
P.S. when pacman installed a package, it copied some files to /opt and updated /var/pacman.../. as i mentioned both /var and /opt were destroyed. it cannot be pacman's fault either. is it reiserfs's fault after all?

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