--- Buchan Milne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > SI Reasoning wrote: > > --- SI Reasoning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>For some reason my/usr/share/config/kdm/Xservers > and > >>Xaccess are gone. I noticed this after a compile > >>although I cannot imagine how it could be related > >> > >> > > as it turned out my /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc > was > > hosed. Unfortunately even kcontrol did not reset > it up > > properly. Fortunately I had another server that I > > could pull the config files from to get it running > > again. My /usr directory is using xfs and I > suspect > > that all of my laptop crash tests (trying to > > suspend/resume) may be creating some file > corruption. > > I also had something like this happen to my > kmailrc > > file (but my /home directory is on reiserfs) Where > it > > looked like part of the autobookmarks or something > > like that took over part of the kmailrc file. > > > > Is it really this easy to corrupt files using > these > > journaled file systems? > > > > I have lost kdm a number of times on different > machines due to a power > loss when running with XFS on a root partition. > Easiest way to fix is > was rpm -Uvh kdebase*.rpm --force > > But no, this shouldn't happen! > > Which FS were you using ? xfs for my /usr directory and the file that was hosed was /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc
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