> > > Howdy all! > > Recently I attempted to install some .deb's when I received error > messages that /usr was mounted read-only. I know that this *is* > the desired state for /use, and will be once my system settles into > a pattern where I'm not always installing/de-installing packages. > In other words...RSN... > > Anyway, a brief look around showed that /usr had some low-level > errors from the WD Caviar drive (again?). I dropped down to > single user mode and unmounted the drive. Running fsck on the > partition yielded many errors and a lot of cruft in /usr/lost+found. > > Here's what's in /usr/lost+found/ (I promise to only print this list once.) > > > cd /usr/lost+found/ > > ls -l > total 176014862730 > b-w-r-xrw- 1 12597 17448 199, 228 Jun 6 2010 #85683 > sr-x---r-T 1 38225 52884 18446744073400402084 Jan 4 1966 #85688 > c----ws--T 1 47531 12439 159, 161 Mar 19 2003 #85731
[...] > br-srwsr-x 1 13510 51690 138, 231 Aug 30 2001 #87654 > b--Sr-Srwt 1 43570 54985 21, 26 Feb 19 1979 #87675 > drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 1024 Dec 2 07:27 #98109 > > Ok. I like a good challenge, but this is ridicules!! This shows your disk is severly screwed up. It is time to make a backup, and see if you can reformat the disk and reinstall. If you get errors like this again, I think you will have to regard the disk as `deceased'. > I *know* that I could wipe out /usr and re-install all of my packages, > but that seems a little drastic. A broken hard disk is a drastic condition, I can tell from experience :( > I've toyed around _very_ _carefully_ > with lde and even tried using it to nix /usr/lost+found...next fsck > caught the files and put them back (+1...I'm assuming it was the original > /usr/lost+found/ entry...) > > Suggestions!? Try to reinstall. If your disk is so screwed up, you cannot expect to get a reliably working system repairing stuff by hand. HTH, Eric -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | tel. office +31 40 2472189 Eindhoven Univ. of Technology | tel. lab. +31 40 2475032 Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (TAK) | tel. fax +31 40 2455054