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Am Dienstag, 3. Januar 2012, 11:26:54 schrieb Lorenzo Bandieri: |
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> > emerge smartmontools |
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> > then when that is done, do this: |
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> > smartctl -t long /dev/sd<drive letter here> |
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> > When you do that, it should print a message that tells when the test will |
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> > complete. It is usually a 24 hour format thing too. This can run while |
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> > the drive is in use too. Sometime after that time, run this command: |
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> > smartctl -l selftest /dev/sd<drive letter here> |
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> > That should tell you the results of the test. If it says it passed, this |
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> > is good. If it reports a problem, well it is not good. If you are |
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> > lucky, it will be like a recent problem I had and reformatting will fix |
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> > it. It was a weird problem but beats replacing a drive. |
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> I'm just wondering: can a tool like strace (or similar) be helpul in |
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> diagnose the problem? |
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> Maybe it could detect if konsole is trying to access a file that has |
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> too strict permissions, couldn't it? Just wondering, I never really |
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> used strace. |
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> Lorenzo |
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a) we allready know where the problem hides - thanks to ~/.xession-errors your |
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first stop when some X based app has problems. |
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b) strace will drown you in output. |
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c) in this case I have my doubts that the output would be helpfull at all |
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(because I strace'd Konsole ;) ) |
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w |
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