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From: Mark Kirkwood <markir@××××××××××××.nz>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Hard Drive Crash - Please Help
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 23:09:08
Message-Id: 45BBDA37.4000709@paradise.net.nz
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Hard Drive Crash - Please Help by Grant
1 Grant wrote:
2 >> >> >> > and the vi command always seg faults. Does that mean the
3 >> /dev/hda3
4 >> >> >> > image is done-for and I should just start the laptop over from
5 >> >> scratch
6 >> >> >> > and import my /etc/ and /home/ directories when it's
7 >> re-installed?
8 >> >> >>
9 >> >> >> I would try putting it all back and re-emerge everything (emerge
10 >> -vaD
11 >> >> >> --emptytree world). It would fix if anything bad happened to the
12 >> >> compiled
13 >> >> >> things and you could start using the things which survived sooner.
14 >> >> >
15 >> >> > I tried re-emerging vim from within the chroot and I got:
16 >> >> >
17 >> >> > /usr/portage/eclass/vim.eclass: line 342: make: command not found
18 >> >> >
19 >> >> > What do you think?
20 >> >> >
21 >> >>
22 >> >> Have you checked the laptop drive? If it is faulty then
23 >> re-installing is
24 >> >> just wasting your time.
25 >> >>
26 >> >> I would recommend checking the drive with smartmontools before
27 >> going any
28 >> >> further. Given the problems outlined above, I would make a package for
29 >> >> it on your desktop and do a binary install of the result on the
30 >> laptop.
31 >> >
32 >> > I haven't checked the laptop drive yet. Can I make a smartmontools
33 >> > package for the x86 laptop on the amd64 desktop? How can I do that?
34 >> >
35 >> >
36 >>
37 >> Actually, I just noticed that smartmontools is installed on the livecd,
38 >> so just use that! Post the output of '/usr/sbin/smartctl -d ata -a
39 >> /dev/hda' - (assuming that your hard drive *is* /dev/hda of course...)
40 >
41 > That command takes less than a second to complete and there is a lot
42 > of output. One thing that jumps out at me is:
43 >
44 > ATA Error Count: 868
45 >
46 > Is there anything else I should post?
47 >
48
49 Hmmm - sounds like its seen 868 read/write errors. However to advise you
50 better we need to see the output. I suspect it is huge because there are
51 error details for each of the 868 errors. How about post the first 200
52 lines of the smartctl output to the list?
53
54 Cheers
55
56 Mark
57
58
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