| Mike Leone on Sun, 17 Nov 2002 15:44:29 -0500 |
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Stephen Gran (steve@lobefin.net) had this to say on 11/17/02 at 13:30: > And, back to Mike - if it's 'just' the /usr/ partition trashed, it may Haven't seen errors from any others. I'm thinking filesystem corruption, because I had to do a "reiserfsck --rebuild-tree" a number of times, until it finally finished. It kept "aborting". Here's a weird addendum - I mounted a spare hard drive (also formatted as reiserfs), and did a "(cd /home/turgon && tar cf - .)|(cd /mnt && tar xvfp -)" - which, BTW, was something Gabe pointed out to me about 2 yrs ago, when I had other kinds of hard drive problems :-). Twice I got a kernel panic (I forgot to write down exactly where; "file-something.c", I think it was). This was on kernel 2.4.19. Needed a hard reset. I booted into 2.4.16, and the copy at least finished, altho with errors. I'm going to try cleaning out my home directory first; then reformatting that drive as ext2, and trying again. > be salvable if you can get dpkg --get-selections to spit out to a file. It can. > You can try booting with the rescue CD, reformatting that partition, and > reading back in your package selections with a combination of dpkg > --set-selections and apt-get install --reinstall. Painful, but it may > be easier than a full reinstall. How can I do that from the rescue CD shell? I'm not visualizing this set of steps properly. -- PGP Fingerprint: 0AA8 DC47 CB63 AE3F C739 6BF9 9AB4 1EF6 5AA5 BCDF Member, LEAF Project <http://leaf.sourceforge.net> AIM: MikeLeone Public Key - <http://www.mike-leone.com/~turgon/turgon-public-key.asc> Registered Linux user# 201348 Attachment:
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