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 1RiDdh-0001h0-T7 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 03 Jan 2012 23:19:30 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 48B8421C07C; Tue, 3 Jan 2012 23:19:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-vx0-f181.google.com (mail-vx0-f181.google.com [209.85.220.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D74321C0DE for ; Tue, 3 Jan 2012 23:17:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vcbfk26 with SMTP id fk26so14070268vcb.40 for ; Tue, 03 Jan 2012 15:17:31 -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:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=SHVXZkFfkgFWzdtULIsK7qEp7mcNgPbi5ol5NWYC6Ng=; b=DIOeBVFQmj5/JUh35+2NGmP+CYlvrvKmHypIiovxhDEuH6qjO9+aUuMK5NV6wpJ2Jn IWvIWD9ERm5BPxnY2Eo2BdtetD/5fSO8R6imyrlXwnwUmcBIwJKoNWpN2u43vruQY3pe sF/fogAXa3UzMRJGJsEeIh+K/VbZqb2cqsuj0= Received: by 10.220.157.17 with SMTP id z17mr30451923vcw.73.1325632651914; Tue, 03 Jan 2012 15:17:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.2.15] (bas1-hamilton02-1176408411.dsl.bell.ca. [70.30.145.91]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id a8sm36406691vdj.11.2012.01.03.15.17.30 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 03 Jan 2012 15:17:30 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4F038C8B.7050200@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2012 18:17:31 -0500 From: Colleen Beamer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111126 Thunderbird/8.0 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> <4F0273C6.6060606@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4F0273C6.6060606@gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.3.3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: d34746b0-c2e2-4ce5-8081-80f45bc32120 X-Archives-Hash: f36f6af18c9ced628c6a3ffe6b5f163d 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 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. 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 -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org