Grant wrote:
>> >> > and the vi command always seg faults. Does that mean the
/dev/hda3
>> >> > image is done-for and I should just start the laptop over from
>> scratch
>> >> > and import my /etc/ and /home/ directories when it's
re-installed?
>> >>
>> >> I would try putting it all back and re-emerge everything (emerge
-vaD
>> >> --emptytree world). It would fix if anything bad happened to the
>> compiled
>> >> things and you could start using the things which survived sooner.
>> >
>> > I tried re-emerging vim from within the chroot and I got:
>> >
>> > /usr/portage/eclass/vim.eclass: line 342: make: command not found
>> >
>> > What do you think?
>> >
>>
>> Have you checked the laptop drive? If it is faulty then
re-installing is
>> just wasting your time.
>>
>> I would recommend checking the drive with smartmontools before
going any
>> further. Given the problems outlined above, I would make a package for
>> it on your desktop and do a binary install of the result on the
laptop.
>
> I haven't checked the laptop drive yet. Can I make a smartmontools
> package for the x86 laptop on the amd64 desktop? How can I do that?
>
>
Actually, I just noticed that smartmontools is installed on the livecd,
so just use that! Post the output of '/usr/sbin/smartctl -d ata -a
/dev/hda' - (assuming that your hard drive *is* /dev/hda of course...)
That command takes less than a second to complete and there is a lot
of output. One thing that jumps out at me is:
ATA Error Count: 868
Is there anything else I should post?
Hmmm - sounds like its seen 868 read/write errors. However to advise you
better we need to see the output. I suspect it is huge because there are
error details for each of the 868 errors. How about post the first 200
lines of the smartctl output to the list?
Cheers
Mark
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