On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 08:51:55AM -0500, David Bruce wrote: > I have a problem with my Sid system after an unplanned reboot due to a power > outage. The reiserfsck fails to fix my /home (I have an LVM/raid1 setup) and > says I need to do it manually using reiserfsck --rebuild-tree, which also > fails, saying I need to use reiserfs --rebuild-sb, which also fails. I > think I may need to migrate my /home to ext3 or something.
There was a thread not that long ago about this very issue. I have unreliable power without UPS. I migrated from ext3 due to power-failure induced corruption and I moved from reiserfs to JFS for the same reason. I have had absolutly no problems with JFS. On the other hand, Sid is by definition unstable. Perhaps there's a bug in your version of reiserfsck. Search the archives for entries containing both reiserfs and jfs; it may prove usefull. > > Anyway, after resuming the boot sequence, the system seems to come up > normally > and I can log in without problems. However, my wife's login is hosed. KDM > displays a dialog saying: > > " Could not start kstartupconfig. Check your installation" > > It seems her ~/.kde directory has problems with corrupted file permissions. > > debian:/home/janis/.kde# ls -l > total 0 > ?--------- ? ? ? ? ? Autostart > ?--------- ? ? ? ? ? cache-debian > ?--------- ? ? ? ? ? share > ?--------- ? ? ? ? ? socket-debian > ?--------- ? ? ? ? ? tmp-debian > > Is there a quick fix I can do to get her into her email for today? Use mutt. >I tried copying my own .kde into her home and changing the ownership, >but KDM locked up when I tried to log in as her. Maybe I should create >a new user account for her and manually move data from her home dir? >Any suggestions would be appreciated. > I hope you have good backups. If you don't make one with the data you have now. As a temp fix I suppose you could move her data but if the reiserfs on which home is built is partially corrupt then you're building a brick wall on a house of cards. If you have a spare partition or drive, make one with JFS and copy the data to that. Good luck. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
