Philip Heron wrote: > Hi all, > > I have an old PC running F10, setup to play a simple animation in a > display. Nothing fancy. Yesterday the town was hit with a series of > power cuts which seems to have well and truely mucked it up. I took a > picture of the kind of errors I'm getting: > > http://www.bacomponents.co.uk/f10-startup-errors.jpeg > > The HAL bit sits for ages, then the screen blanks. X fails to start, > trying to login on the console gives me a password error, and ssh fails > to connect. I've run e2fsck on the disk and it seems fine. > > Should I just nuke it and start again? Or is there a handy way to fix it? > > -Phil > Well, with errors shown, it will probably be better to nuke it and start over. The system could probably be restored, but it will take a lot more work. What I would probably start with is boot to run level one, and run "rpm -Va | less". It may appear to sit there doing nothings, because this command only produces an output if it finds a mismatch. If you want to see what it is doing, you can add a -v to the command. (rpm -Va -v | less) But this produces a LOT of output, and makes it harder to spot bad files. If it finds a lot of bad files, it is probably going to be faster to re-install and update. You should consider using ext3 file systems directly on disk partitions instead of using the default LVM. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
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