Re: Recovering from a Crash

Tommy Reynolds wrote:

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
Thanks for the info. Fortutiously, it seems to be behaving itself now. I realized I could continue my debugging of a module, and again got a hang. When I powered down/up again, and logged in the problem with vi and cp vanished.

Now for a post on the module problem.


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