On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 00:29, Andrei Raevsky wrote: > the computer booted up normally but now I get messages such as "Can't > write file /var/log/linuxconf/netconf.log" > > I am running ext3 journalling filesystem which I thought would record the > location of all my files every 5 sec. However, data was lost. Why?! > > Can you explain what happened? And should I take any special action?
Hi Andrei (please remove the Reply To in your mail program) Did you have a power-problem on the PC? Did it crash lately? I recognise the problems. My (very soon to be ex) normal PC keeps crashing due to some weird hardware flaw, thus corrupting the info on the disks. Most of the partitions there are EXT3 also. After 1 crash, the FS was recovered quickly. But when things collapse every hour, things on disk become such a mess that all kinds of other things seem to go wrong. Things that EXT3 does not (probably can not) take into account. A few times things went so wrong that I had to reformat / and /usr and reinstall everything from scratch. You should check if /var/log/linuxconf exists. If not, you can mkdir that by hand (as root) and see if the problems go away. If more /var or other problems occur, you would be best off to consider a reinstall. Good luck. Paul (who is waiting for a new PC to be deliverd today) -- Thou shalt not impersonate Liberace or eat watermelon while sitting at the console keyboard. http://nlpagan.net - Linux Mandrake - Ximian Evolution
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