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 1Ri1bH-0006MB-IP for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 03 Jan 2012 10:28:11 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4480B21C0DA; Tue, 3 Jan 2012 10:27:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-iy0-f181.google.com (mail-iy0-f181.google.com [209.85.210.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CB5421C0DA for ; Tue, 3 Jan 2012 10:26:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iakk12 with SMTP id k12so33616400iak.40 for ; Tue, 03 Jan 2012 02:26:54 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=bqidsec8e0di/8h4PqlqZ4YVFCs7p+bYxtyhZMvSbQU=; b=eq6whTzaLl2G1thXf19iD7WNT7qtp9C8BsFUf4fsNvR0bZbac6LmMifayA9e4KP6Hz qG61j43nP6mITRc0JqrqEVKjoxWZH0rU33zmoL0h4yeRMSoNASnV+Ge4JaU37D98LoVO iW8rA9Kq60VONcB7XSakd+nBpo1OMSPuq008g= 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 Received: by 10.42.19.195 with SMTP id d3mr52465392icb.21.1325586414871; Tue, 03 Jan 2012 02:26:54 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.231.207.1 with HTTP; Tue, 3 Jan 2012 02:26:54 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4F0273C6.6060606@gmail.com> 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> Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2012 11:26:54 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole issue From: Lorenzo Bandieri To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 9fd7c74d-d801-46ca-8a3a-e903c6d56508 X-Archives-Hash: 3131e8dddca351cf4635fa9f0df896f3 > 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. =A0It is usually a 24 hour format thing too. =A0This can run wh= ile the > drive is in use too. =A0Sometime after that time, run this command: > > smartctl -l selftest /dev/sd > > That should tell you the results of the test. =A0If it says it passed, th= is is > good. =A0If it reports a problem, well it is not good. =A0If you are luck= y, it > will be like a recent problem I had and reformatting will fix it. =A0It w= as a > weird problem but beats replacing a drive. > I'm just wondering: can a tool like strace (or similar) be helpul in diagnose the problem? Maybe it could detect if konsole is trying to access a file that has too strict permissions, couldn't it? Just wondering, I never really used strace. Lorenzo --=20 Nothing is interesting if you're not interested.