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From: Colleen Beamer <colleen.beamer@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole issue
Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2012 18:17:31 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F038C8B.7050200@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F0273C6.6060606@gmail.com>

On 01/02/12 22:19, Dale wrote:
> Colleen Beamer wrote:
>> On 01/02/12 14:42, Michael Mol wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 2:32 PM, Colleen
>>> Beamer<colleen.beamer@gmail.com>  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
>>>>>>> <colleen.beamer@gmail.com>
>>>>> 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<drive letter here>
>
> 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<drive letter here>
>
> 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.

Thanks, Dale.  I'll try this.  Don't know if I'll get to it tonight ....
unfortunately, it was back to work to day and I have a bunch of stuff to
do tonight.

To everyone else, thanks ... I'll keep googling to see if I can figure
this out and I'll shout again if I need assistance.

Regards,

Colleen


-- 

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-01-03 23:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-01 19:33 [gentoo-user] Konsole issue Colleen Beamer
2012-01-01 19:41 ` Michael Mol
2012-01-01 19:51   ` Colleen Beamer
2012-01-01 19:58     ` Michael Mol
2012-01-01 20:12       ` Colleen Beamer
2012-01-01 20:46         ` Dale
2012-01-01 21:00           ` Colleen Beamer
2012-01-01 21:15             ` Michael Mol
2012-01-01 21:51               ` Colleen Beamer
2012-01-01 22:10                 ` Dale
2012-01-01 22:15                 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2012-01-01 22:36                   ` Colleen Beamer
2012-01-01 23:06                     ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2012-01-01 23:20                       ` Colleen Beamer
2012-01-01 23:48                         ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2012-01-02  0:10                           ` Colleen Beamer
2012-01-02  0:32                             ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2012-01-02  1:01                               ` Colleen Beamer
2012-01-02  1:08                                 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2012-01-02  0:01                         ` Mark Knecht
2012-01-02  0:09                           ` Mark Knecht
2012-01-02  0:18                           ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2012-01-02  0:34                             ` Mark Knecht
2012-01-02  0:40                               ` Michael Mol
2012-01-02  0:47                                 ` Mark Knecht
2012-01-02  0:55                                 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2012-01-02  1:05                                   ` Colleen Beamer
2012-01-02  1:13                                     ` Mark Knecht
2012-01-02  1:20                                       ` Colleen Beamer
2012-01-02  1:29                                         ` Mark Knecht
2012-01-02  2:25                                           ` Colleen Beamer
2012-01-02  9:57                                             ` Mick
2012-01-02 19:32                                               ` Colleen Beamer
2012-01-02 19:42                                                 ` Michael Mol
2012-01-03  2:39                                                   ` Colleen Beamer
2012-01-03  3:19                                                     ` Dale
2012-01-03 10:26                                                       ` Lorenzo Bandieri
2012-01-03 10:39                                                         ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2012-01-03 23:17                                                       ` Colleen Beamer [this message]
2012-01-02 20:54                                                 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-01-02  1:18                                     ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2012-01-02  2:44                                       ` Colleen Beamer
2012-01-02 12:53                                         ` Neil Bothwick
2012-01-02 14:44                                           ` Mark Knecht
2012-01-02 17:09                                             ` Neil Bothwick
2012-01-02 19:12                                               ` Colleen Beamer
2012-01-02 19:22                                                 ` Colleen Beamer
2012-01-02 19:27                                                   ` Michael Mol
2012-01-02 19:35                                                     ` Colleen Beamer
2012-01-02 19:47                                                       ` Michael Mol
2012-01-02 20:56                                                   ` Neil Bothwick
     [not found]                                                     ` <201201022259.03909.michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
2012-01-03  0:05                                                       ` Neil Bothwick
2012-01-03  1:09                                                   ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2012-01-02  0:25                           ` Colleen Beamer
2012-01-02  0:26                     ` Michael Mol
2012-01-01 19:48 ` Dale
2012-01-01 20:01   ` Colleen Beamer
2012-01-01 20:09     ` [gentoo-user] " James
2012-01-01 20:34       ` Colleen Beamer
2012-01-01 20:08 ` [gentoo-user] " Paul Hartman
2012-01-01 20:36   ` Colleen Beamer

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