On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 04:28:07AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > you have experienced fairly severe filesystem corruption, cleaning up > after such things is generally a nightmare. did you run fsck i > presume? (fsck a four letter word for a reason...)
Yes; fsck was run, and after a lot of time checking the filesystem and complaining about bad inodes and such things, it got me to bash and said... Please run fsck manually. I saw this other times in the past, but I was able to repair the filesystem. > hard to say, could be, i just had some filesystem corruption on one of > my boxes today too (i believe the disk is dying) after a fsck i had > some random stuff in /var/lib/dpkg/info replaced by symlinks, random > corruption (files full of nulls and binary crap) files turned into > directories, etc. (can a dying disk cause this type of damage? the > kernel is/was 2.2.16, now 2.2.17, its been fine since january) I could say yes. A dying disk can erase data and corrupt files. I remember I saw a 500 mb disk in a new computer that when it was about 50% full, it started corrupting everything... The disk also become a 1000 GB disk magically ;-) and files in one directory were bigger than this. > there is a point when this type of damage is more trouble to repair > then it is to just rebuild the system, if the packaging system is > still intact a dpkg --get-selections \* > selections will get you a > file to restore your package selections (and avoid a long boring > dselect session) backup /etc/ (and restore only what you need after > checking it) backup /home and /var/mail of course. and a system > rebuild really won't take too long. Oh, I think I never used dselect... I don't like it very much. I always start installing the base system and then the base packages that are selected by the system without selecting any task. Then, I add packages -on demand-. When I need one, I use apt to install it. Also I don't store mail in /var/mail, so one thing less to backup :) > > PS: I don't need to solve this because I want to reinstall a new > > system, but I would like to keep this woody working until I can get my > > new linux box perfectly functional and working. > > isn't it great to have a release name that makes nearly every comment > sound perverted ;-) XD Thanks > > -- > Ethan Benson > http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ -- Juli-Manel Merino Vidal Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://jmmv.cjb.net
