Is there a way to fix my usr partition without reinstalling Debian completely? It was
hosed either by a KDE crash, powerloss, or synaptic crashing and restarting the
system, or a combination.
The story as complete as I can follows since I have no idea where the problem is or
how to fix it.
System Specs:
PIII 600Mhz with 256 MB Ram,
SB Live sound card,
nVidia Geforce 256 DDR (subsystem: AGP-V6800) with the nvidia driver installed,
3Com 3c905c-Tx (Tornado),
Kernel is my 2.4.18
Debian unstable, (recently changed from woody).
I use wmaker for my window manager and kde is installed for my wife.
I manage my packages with synaptic.
Problem:
I have used tuxracer in wmaker before and it works no problem.
However, I tried tuxracer in KDE under my wife's account for the first time and it
gave a segmentation fault and the resolution stayed at 800x600(?). I then logged out
and back in to my own account and wmaker but the resolution was still wrong. It
wouldn't switch back to my preferred setting of 1280x1024. I restarted the machine
for lack of other ideas. No problems, so I ran synaptic and updated my list and began
a dist-upgrade. Partway through this process, the machine started to reboot! Then on
booting up, it failed and complained of corruption. So I used tomsrtbt and ran fsck
without automatic fixing and answered yes to all questions. Afterwards, I rebooted
and everything seemed normal. However, synaptic wouldn't run until I downloaded the
palm-conduit package and installed with dpkg. Then, I switched to sarge from
unstable, hoping sarge is approximately as stable as woody was. But I still
complaints about errors with packages. Now, gnome-terminal is not even installed so I
have tried aptitu
From: root@peter (Cron Daemon)
To: root@peter
Subject: Cron <root@peter> test -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report
/etc/cron.daily
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 06:29:15 -0700
/etc/cron.daily/man-db:
gzip: /usr/share/man/man8/kernel-packageconfig.8.gz: not in gzip format
run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/man-db exited with return code 3
/etc/cron.daily/standard:
Files were found in lost+found directories. This is probably
the result of a crash or bad shutdown, or possibly of a disk
problem. These files may contain important information. You
should examine them, and move them out of lost+found or delete
them if they are not important.
The following files were found:
/lost+found:
#33668
#33696
#33697
#33698
#33715
#33740
#33769
#33771
#49352
#49394
#49609
#50036
#50038
#50196
#64785
#64786
...
Any ideas? Please email comments to me as I don't subscribe to this list.
Brian
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