Thanks for the info, and sorry for not giving a clear picture of the
problems. It's a case of too many things going wrong back-to-back with
FC4. It takes another computer to figure out which problem is
associated with which other problem.
My 1st impression when e2fsck reported the bad blocks was that my hard
drive was failing. However, the hard drive is partitioned with MS
Windows XP. If it was the hard drive problem, then Win XP would also be
affected. It's not.
Then we come to Logical Volume 1, instead of hda1. I don't know how
that works. I suspect that the Logical Volumes are a diversion form the
normal record tracking, the same way that Win XP and NT file systems
diverted from what was previously normal. IE,with NT, the disk map is
maintained in the directory instead of being chained at the end of each
block. Anyway, e2fsck reported problems with Logical Volume 1 and was
unable to fix it. I would need to know a lot more then I do about the
file system to use a disk editor.
As for bleeding edge, I have Red Hat 9, and Red Hat even says that
everyone should migrate to Fedora or Red Hat Enterprise. The problem
with older releases is that a number of Internet bugs are aimed at
them. As for testing versions vs stable releases, I understood that FC4
was supposed to have been released as stable.
Anyway, I was very happy with FC3. But the updates from the past couple
of months have made it as bad as FC4.
But you are right. I have the rescue CDs for FC3 and FC4, plus a couple
of older Knoppix CDs, along with a couple of SUSE CDs. I can try
recovery with these. thanks for pointing this out. This whole thing
does bother me because I have considered Fedora Core the best of the
available versions of Linux, up until now....
Lloyd Hayes
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Craig White wrote:
On Fri, 2005-08-12 at 21:09 -0600, Lloyd Hayes wrote:
I got the bug in my Thunderbird email the other day. Today, I decided
to un-install Thunderbird and re-install it using 'Yum Extender'
Bad move. Yum Extender froze while doing this. After letting it sit
for a half hour, I did a force quit on it.
Afterwards I tried loading Synaptic to do the same thing. It would
not start.
I logged out as a user, intending to log back in as root. I got a
small red screen approximate 800x600 pixels in size, and I get a
message that it can not load my graphical desktop. I had the line
commands only, and most of those are cut off by the outer blue
screen.
I rebooted.
I got the message that my file system was corrupted and Selinux was
preventing repairs. It stated that it had disabled selinux. It needed
my root password.
When I typed in the root password, I got this:
:repairing volume 1:
It is sitting there waiting for something, but I do not know what. If
I simply type in "yes", I see a bunch of odd characters appear on
that small red screen, then it goes blank. Nothing appears to be
happening with my hard drive.
I can really use some help to recover some files here.
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at the :repairing volume 1: prompt...
e2fsck -fy /dev/hda1
substitute freely for hda1 for other partitions or logical devices
Craig
fsck reports too many bad blocks. It attempts to copy them, but I
think that it is simply running out of room. I have an 18 GB partition
for Win XP and a 10 GB partition for FC4. There was about 2 GB free
the last time I looked at the FC4 partition.
I have a 2nd older laptop computer running FC3 which has not been
updated recently. It works fine. I don't think that I'll update it
all. I'm going to give up on FC4. It simply has too many problems...
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you are mixing a number of issues together and not giving/seeing a clear
picture.
- bad blocks is not a software issue. it is a hard drive issue. if you
have bad blocks on a hard drive, you probably need to copy everything
off to another hard drive.
- FC4, is fairly experimental, reflecting the stated goals of Fedora to
be more towards the bleeding edge. If what you want is tested and stable
Linux, things like RHEL 4 or CentOS 4 are likely to be more to your
liking.
if you run 'man e2fsck', you will find things like a '-c' option for
more handling of bad block issues
Craig
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