Re: Recovering from a Crash
- From: Tommy Reynolds <Tommy.Reynolds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 09:25:54 -0600
On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 12:13:57 +0000, W. Watson wrote:
My machine hung, and powered it down. When I rebooted, it complained and
then went about a typical root recovery. However, it failed and I did a
fsck. All came up fine, or so I thought. Upon trying vi and a cp, I got some
really screw characters on the screen. I do have a boot disk. I'd rather not
start from scratch. Is it possible to go through the CD install as an update?
Sounds as if, while fsck was deleting corrupted files and info, some
of your useful files got deleted/corrupted too.
I'd pop install CD #1 into the drive, reset, and the type "linux
rescue" to boot into rescue mode. Let it install your current
filesystems under "/sysimage" when it asks. Assuming that goes OK,
when you get a shell prompt:
# rpm --root=/sysimage -Va
This will run a known good program, from the CD install media,
against the database and filesystem content from your local system.
If you get any output lines *without* a "C" as the second field then
you have a corrupt package and you'll need to reboot and re-install
it.
HTH
.
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