Re: [gentoo-user] Hard Drive Crash - Please Help

[Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com>]

> >> >> >> > 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?
> >
>
> Hmmm - sounds like its seen 868 read/write errors. However to advise you
> better we need to see the output. I suspect it is huge because there are
> error details for each of the 868 errors. How about post the first 200
> lines of the smartctl output to the list?

I did a fresh format and install with the GTK installer from a LiveCD
and on the second boot errors are detected in the file system.  I
guess it's over for this drive?

- Grant
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