Hi, Charles. On Aug 29 2007, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 12:56:00PM -0300, Rogério Brito a écrit : > > Just for curiosity, which Ubuntu CD did you use? Any gusty image? It > > only gives me psychedelic colors when I boot boot them. > > I am using Ubuntu 6.10 live for PPC. Unfortunately, the Debian-live Etch > CD does not work (maybe because I have a G5)
Ah, 6.10. The last version that works. :-) Feisty (7.04) doesn't work and the last time I checked with gutsy, it was so problematic that I changed and went with MacOS X (until I can make my USB D-Link DWL-G122 work with any kind of Linux driver) and Debian (which is where I feel "at home"). > Under Ubuntu, the problem is the same. I unfortunately can not tell if > it already happened before because the last time I used it was to > partition the disk in order to install Etch. You mentioned latter that you could not use smartmontools because it was not available: well, that's partially true---include the repositories universe and multiverse into your sources.list and install the package even in a live session. I guess that the results under Linux *may* be more informative than the ones you got under Tiger. > Importantly, I was able to work all day with Mac OS X Tiger, without > having drive problems. (It is installed on the same drive). Ok. > I tried to test the memory and found notihing. Somme applications, > namely NeoOffice, Adium, iTerm and Camino crash a lot, and what they > have in common is that I updated them yesterday. However, I also > updated Thunderbird, and it does not crash. I guess that this may mean that you installed some applications in a defective part of the HD. Having Camino crash a lot is quite strange indeed. > I am really clueless about what happened. On internet, I could read > advices about recompiling the kernel with multimode option, but even > if I would do this on another ppc machine, how could I install it if I > can not mount the drive rw? The multimode option may only help with the PATA driver (it seems that you are using SATA on your machine---is this correct?), I guess and only if the error numbers are exactly what you are seeing (you'd have to watch it closely). Actually, you can force remounting the HD rw with: # mount -o rw,remount -n / but you can also expect it to be remounted ro with little activity. :-( > > > I am wondering it my hard drive is dying or if it is another > > > hardware problem... > > > > Based on this alone, I would say that your disk is dying. Quickly, > > backup all the data on that disk and install smartmontools. > > Bad luck, it is not installed on Ubuntu's live CD... I will try to use > it from OS X, but I have some work to do as well... (It is a work > computer) See above. > > Yes. I've done this a couple of times and it worked as well as a > > userspace tool could work (i.e., don't expect miracles). > > I made a miracle with an iPod and ddrescue in the past :) Heh. Sometimes, miracles *do* happen. :-) Hope this helps, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED],ime.usp}.br : GPG key 1024D/7C2CAEB8 http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito : http://meusite.mackenzie.com.br/rbrito Projects: algorithms.berlios.de : lame.sf.net : vrms.alioth.debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]