Re: crash recovery

2008-11-13 Thread tyler
Michael Iatrou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When the date was Wednesday 12 November 2008, tyler wrote: > >> >> I just experienced a complete freeze of my laptop - amarok was stuck >> looping through the same second of music from an online stream, and the >> keyboard and mouse stopped responding c

Re: crash recovery

2008-11-13 Thread tyler
Michael Iatrou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When the date was Wednesday 12 November 2008, tyler wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I just experienced a complete freeze of my laptop - amarok was stuck >> looping through the same second of music from an online stream, and the >> keyboard and mouse stopped respo

Re: crash recovery

2008-11-12 Thread Michael Iatrou
When the date was Wednesday 12 November 2008, tyler wrote: > Hi, > > I just experienced a complete freeze of my laptop - amarok was stuck > looping through the same second of music from an online stream, and the > keyboard and mouse stopped responding completely. The screen appeared > fixed, viewi

Re: crash recovery

2008-11-12 Thread Bob Cox
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 15:08:18 -0400, tyler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I just experienced a complete freeze of my laptop - amarok was stuck > looping through the same second of music from an online stream, and the > keyboard and mouse stopped responding completely. The screen appeared > fixed

crash recovery

2008-11-12 Thread tyler
Hi, I just experienced a complete freeze of my laptop - amarok was stuck looping through the same second of music from an online stream, and the keyboard and mouse stopped responding completely. The screen appeared fixed, viewing an xpdf window. I couldn't even switch to a terminal to poke around

Re: root crash recovery

2004-11-12 Thread Al Nikolov
Andrea Vettorello wrote: > If you trust your /var/lib/dpkg dir, something like: > > dpkg --get-selections | awk '$2 == "install" { print $1 }' | xargs > apt-get -y --reinstall install Yep, that's what it should be. Thanks! -- Regards, Al Nikolov -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: root crash recovery

2004-11-11 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 16:53:08 +0300, Al Nikolov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No, i would to recreate bin, sbin, lib, etc - all my root filesystem - with > files installed from 'existing' packages. > > > > CW Harris wrote: > > > This lists all known packages. I think what you are wanting is > >

Re: root crash recovery

2004-11-11 Thread Al Nikolov
No, i would to recreate bin, sbin, lib, etc - all my root filesystem - with files installed from 'existing' packages. CW Harris wrote: > This lists all known packages. I think what you are wanting is > (see dpkg(8)): > >To make a local copy of the package selection states: >

Re: root crash recovery

2004-11-10 Thread CW Harris
On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 03:15:28PM +0300, Al Nikolov wrote: > Hi all > > My root filesystem has crashed because of hardware failure. (Although, it > was ext3, and i wasn't supposed that may happens... Where's my fault?) > > But there are still alive usr and, more important, var. I plan to install

root crash recovery

2004-11-10 Thread Al Nikolov
Hi all My root filesystem has crashed because of hardware failure. (Although, it was ext3, and i wasn't supposed that may happens... Where's my fault?) But there are still alive usr and, more important, var. I plan to install the minimal system onto new clean root partition, mount old usr and var

RE: Hard Drive Crash Recovery

2003-08-22 Thread Keith Goettert
Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 11:29 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Hard Drive Crash Recovery I had a hard drive crash last night on one of my systems. Fortunately only a near empty /home and the swap partition were on that drive so I did not lose too much data. However, I don't know how to

Hard Drive Crash Recovery

2003-08-21 Thread Curtis Spencer
I had a hard drive crash last night on one of my systems. Fortunately only a near empty /home and the swap partition were on that drive so I did not lose too much data. However, I don't know how to go about remounting the /home directory and the swap partition. Is there any way to mount the /

Re: Crash recovery.

2000-10-31 Thread kmself
on Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 11:01:28PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hi Everyone, > > Had a fun experience today. Debian hung and refused any input. The > only option I had was to power it down. The reboot failed dropping me > at the command prompt to run fsck manually. Thi

Crash recovery.

2000-10-31 Thread paul
Hi Everyone, Had a fun experience today. Debian hung and refused any input. The only option I had was to power it down. The reboot failed dropping me at the command prompt to run fsck manually. This fixed this and that and place a number of things in to /lost+found. Rebooting again and this ti