From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Rhuvk-0005pQ-IH for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 03 Jan 2012 03:20:52 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3794721C03B; Tue, 3 Jan 2012 03:20:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gx0-f181.google.com (mail-gx0-f181.google.com [209.85.161.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA7FE21C03B for ; Tue, 3 Jan 2012 03:19:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ggnq2 with SMTP id q2so1330507ggn.40 for ; Mon, 02 Jan 2012 19:19:36 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=LwGNEypb7FKaWv7MEJokMCqIUcyccfFGLEeJ0h7wJT4=; b=gKCHwINTL/oQXOPgCHmmzat/jXLmvjiElh9hU0pql3YoDQsFAkKHszItf58k3DbQ7U p9Lb0wcuQKfY1Kc9XNu2Bo8QCHQA10eItrnGWGSpcZUbYoq7NwpqeoWlepj9tF+UxS5C VYBnHevEs9CYgUFXNKwTSVKXioGzInux7KDbI= Received: by 10.236.178.101 with SMTP id e65mr66209499yhm.40.1325560776468; Mon, 02 Jan 2012 19:19:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-65-0-65-42.jan.bellsouth.net. [65.0.65.42]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id v35sm13273502yhj.14.2012.01.02.19.19.34 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 02 Jan 2012 19:19:35 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4F0273C6.6060606@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2012 21:19:34 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20111022 Firefox/7.0.1 SeaMonkey/2.4.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole issue References: <4F00B505.6050908@gmail.com> <4F0115A9.6000601@gmail.com> <201201020958.13471.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <4F020652.8030101@gmail.com> <4F026A77.4010204@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4F026A77.4010204@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 98fe313a-cb0f-47d7-b579-9c8b7d114afb X-Archives-Hash: d01a4d20b2d0f2fadb2b7df75009ad27 Colleen Beamer wrote: > On 01/02/12 14:42, Michael Mol wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 2:32 PM, Colleen Beamer wrote: >>> On 01/02/12 04:57, Mick wrote: >>>> On Monday 02 Jan 2012 02:25:45 Colleen Beamer wrote: >>>>> On 01/01/12 20:29, Mark Knecht wrote: >>>>>> On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Colleen Beamer >>>>>> >>>> wrote: >>>>>>> On 01/01/12 20:13, Mark Knecht wrote: >> [snip] >> >>>> Since there were no updates/upgrades immediately prior to this error, this >>>> could well have been a result of fs corruption, or memory problems. It >>>> would >>>> make sense to check what smartctl -a /dev/sda shows just in case. >>> I'd be willing to try this, but what is smartctl a part of? >> "smartctl -a" asks the hard disk device for diagnostic information. > Yes, but when I ran 'smartctl -a /dev/sda' it tells me the command isn't > found. I did a search for this command and it was found in > /usr/share/bash-completion/ but if I run it (and it is executable to > owner (root)), using the full path to the command, it tells me the > command isn't found. I also tried creating a symlink to it in /usr/bin > and I get the message: > /usr/bin/smartctl: line 3: have: command not found. > > Regards, > > Colleen > emerge smartmontools then when that is done, do this: smartctl -t long /dev/sd When you do that, it should print a message that tells when the test will complete. It is usually a 24 hour format thing too. This can run while the drive is in use too. Sometime after that time, run this command: smartctl -l selftest /dev/sd That should tell you the results of the test. If it says it passed, this is good. If it reports a problem, well it is not good. If you are lucky, it will be like a recent problem I had and reformatting will fix it. It was a weird problem but beats replacing a drive. Hope that helps. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words! Miss the compile output? Hint: EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n"