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From: Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Hard Drive Crash - Please Help
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> >> >> > and the vi command always seg faults. Does that mean the /dev/hda3
> >> >> > image is done-for and I should just start the laptop over from
> >> scratch
> >> >> > and import my /etc/ and /home/ directories when it's re-installed?
> >> >>
> >> >> I would try putting it all back and re-emerge everything (emerge -vaD
> >> >> --emptytree world). It would fix if anything bad happened to the
> >> compiled
> >> >> things and you could start using the things which survived sooner.
> >> >
> >> > I tried re-emerging vim from within the chroot and I got:
> >> >
> >> > /usr/portage/eclass/vim.eclass: line 342: make: command not found
> >> >
> >> > What do you think?
> >> >
> >>
> >> Have you checked the laptop drive? If it is faulty then re-installing is
> >> just wasting your time.
> >>
> >> I would recommend checking the drive with smartmontools before going any
> >> further. Given the problems outlined above, I would make a package for
> >> it on your desktop and do a binary install of the result on the laptop.
> >
> > I haven't checked the laptop drive yet. Can I make a smartmontools
> > package for the x86 laptop on the amd64 desktop? How can I do that?
> >
> >
>
> Actually, I just noticed that smartmontools is installed on the livecd,
> so just use that! Post the output of '/usr/sbin/smartctl -d ata -a
> /dev/hda' - (assuming that your hard drive *is* /dev/hda of course...)
That command takes less than a second to complete and there is a lot
of output. One thing that jumps out at me is:
ATA Error Count: 868
Is there anything else I should post?
- Grant
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