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On Wednesday 16 April 2008, Bob Young wrote: |
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> I'm in the process of installing a new box, last night before going |
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> to bed I started installing xorg server. This morning, I found the |
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> 82nd build (out of 162) had failed with the following error: |
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> 36 -rwxr-xr-x 1 NormalUser Domain Admins 36364 Apr 19 2007 |
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> Okay, so my question is how bad is it? |
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It's very bad. It indicates file system corruption on the ReiserFS. In |
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my experience, I have never seen this to be followed by a clean |
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recovery. |
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You can try reiser.fsck with --rebuild-tree (after suitably enough |
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research and googling) and see what gives. |
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Sorry for the bad news. |
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> Is there anyway to shutdown cleanly? |
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'shutdown -h now' ? |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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