Roy Erickson wrote:
Hi all:
Last week we had a power outage. My FC4 machine was eating up the
battery reserves of our network switch which was needed while the rest
of the shop was executing graceful shutdowns, so I literally flipped
the switch on it.
That should not hurt much.
After starting it up, after power was restored, I noticed that it had
"(none)" for it's hostname, down in the lower right hand corner where
it real hostname was before.
Generally, that means your network didn't come up.
I logged in, got a warning that GNOME would not work correctly w/o an
IP#, and opened a terminal shell.
When I did an 'ls' I got Segmentation Fault
OhOh
oh,
Likely this is why the network didn't come up.
Any way to clean up form this?
What filesystem are you using? ext2/ext3 are supposed to handle this
pretty well and it's a very long time since I had a problem with them.
OTOH some others (and I don't want to cast nasturtiums) have less
stellar reputations.
In any event, booting your rescue CD and running a filesystem check is a
good start. I'm a little torn about recommending a read-only check - it
sounds conservative, but it won't fix the problem. OTOH, a rw test
(necessary to fix it) also has the possibility to make it worse.
It's a quandary, best resulved by Roy.
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Cheers
John
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