2009/1/29 Alex H. Vandenham <a...@avantel.ca>: > On Thursday 29 January 2009 11:37:00 am Scott Silva wrote: > >> >> If you had many power failures, the filesystem might just be severely >> trashed. Journals and files out of sync, etc... If a good fsck didn't fix >> it, you might just be in for a wipe-reinstall, or many hours of finding and >> fixing corrupted files.. I would install to a new drive, and then you can >> take some time recovering from the old drive as you find things missing. >> That way you will still have the old system for whatever might come up. I >> always seem to find something that didn't get backed up properly. > > > Since you can log in as root, a less drastic first step might be to: > > Change your runlevel (as root) to 3 and try a text login (as you) for access > to your files. > > man init > > If the kde files are trashed, perhaps you can create another user on the > system and copy over your personal files, or do a diff to see which kde files > might have been trashed. > > If it really looks bad (disk bad and/or major file corruption) , then I agree > that a new install might be the way to go but that's significant pain . . . > Yes, I'll try that first - if I can convince myself that the hardware is OK. I really wish I know what caused it, though.
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