jludwig wrote: >> > Probably OT, but I'm getting the above error message >> > more and more frequently, followed by the machine seizing up. >> > >> > (1) Is this definitely a sign of a dying disk? > This sounds like a drive going bad. The read_itnr: indicates that a > sector could not be read properly and the drive is being reset. In any > case download abd back up NOW!!! I have indeed backed up. In fact I have an identical machine (Sony C1VFK Picturebook) which I bought second-hand for just such an eventuality, and which I'm using now. I was pleased to find that copying over /home (with rsync) seemed to give me 95% of the required functionality. The only additional changes I had to make were (1) to copy over my sendmail.mc and make /etc/mail/sendmail.cf (2) to copy over /etc/uucp (I'm the last person in the world using uucp) (3) chkconfig --add spamassassin I should say that I had already installed Fedora-1 on the "new" machine. I know I should install a new hard disk in my old machine, but the descriptions of how to do this with a Sony Picturebook have frightened me too much. (I speak as one who would change a HD in a desktop in a moment.) -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
