From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from <gentoo-user+bounces-59167-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@gentoo.org>) id 1HB1r0-0006dU-Pa for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 28 Jan 2007 04:41:23 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id l0S4eBPf028870; Sun, 28 Jan 2007 04:40:11 GMT Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com (nz-out-0506.google.com [64.233.162.235]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l0S4aAeg024284 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Sun, 28 Jan 2007 04:36:10 GMT Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id s1so1000280nze for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Sat, 27 Jan 2007 20:36:09 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=a1fc88oAEmxKSZNhvvEWZSb0c+D0wQY/7cuaqc4KtxpCs2XR4xn+ugy7ybmOQpz0+ukfSGxT8PJdCPX+LEYEkt+d4iQWy8uzIF49jgAxm2kYeYx5SpjMlaebj5PkKT9P4Lm3ZnwCIYiplLXzJYNxQ/ohumNY3tcwVXJ4eXl5Cq8= Received: by 10.115.54.1 with SMTP id g1mr192054wak.1169958969584; Sat, 27 Jan 2007 20:36:09 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.114.174.18 with HTTP; Sat, 27 Jan 2007 20:36:09 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <49bf44f10701272036s2f0ad70fo77f34849af93b7d3@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 20:36:09 -0800 From: Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Hard Drive Crash - Please Help In-Reply-To: <45BBDA37.4000709@paradise.net.nz> Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <49bf44f10701250820n4ad79b8dudcdba5a8e584545@mail.gmail.com> <200701271823.37253.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <49bf44f10701271051q6610e013n2ba2aaa6f04cd6e0@mail.gmail.com> <20070127194353.GA22364@tarantula.kolej.mff.cuni.cz> <49bf44f10701271210u12c1edcbt1d1323f0c96f36a1@mail.gmail.com> <45BBB713.4020001@paradise.net.nz> <49bf44f10701271301lc7bd365p471f682db19834dd@mail.gmail.com> <45BBC1E3.4050807@paradise.net.nz> <49bf44f10701271439n347cebd9xc847aeb248f85c36@mail.gmail.com> <45BBDA37.4000709@paradise.net.nz> X-Archives-Salt: 95821143-17b0-4ffa-a3c6-ab2b026040d2 X-Archives-Hash: 3195f0208808a6d36f4e275ff5295336 > >> >> >> > 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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list