Hi all, A couple of weeks ago I found Solaris and I installed OpenSolaris 2008.11 (rc2) on a dedicated box - i.e. wiped the disk and did a Solaris-only install using all of the defaults. And wouldn't you believe it, yesterday afternoon Firefox crashed and I couln't start it again (nothing happened). I just shutdown as I was ready for that day anyway. This morning I fired up my box, started Firefox and after a few moments... automatic reboot! Hmm, that can't be good. Repeated my steps and again the system rebooted automatically. Luckily I had already learned a bit about ZFS so I ran "zpool scrub rpool" and "zpool status -v rpool" and sure enough a lib-file in //usr/lib was said to be corrupt. OK, started Nautilus, copied the file from a snapshot of yesterday afternoon to /usr/lib and restarted my box. Next I attempted to start firefox again but this time, a few seconds into starting, it closed again and was also no longer visible in "ps -e". Well at least the system didn't reboot spontaneously. So I figured I'd better reboot manually but then my trouble really began...
Another scrub revealed now even more files (including ones in snapshots) to be corrupt. However, after yet another scrub everything was said to be OK. Just too bad that starting Firefox resulted in automatic reboots again... :-( So finally I ran Spinrite (_the_ best hard disk checking tool around) and my disk got a clean bill of health. Since I am still in the learning and testing stage of Solaris, no important files are stored on this box,so I guess I can just pop in the CD again, wipe the disk and do a reinstall. But this will NOT be an option anymore if I decide to move all of my files to OpenSolaris and use OpenSolaris as my main OS. Therefore I prefer to *repair* my box so that if ever in the future I suffer another catastrophe, at least I am somewhat prepared. Any suggestions anyone? Which brings me to my second question... Is it possible to move my home folder to a second hard disk so that the OS is on one disk and all of my personal files are on the other disk. I am sad to say that from personal experience I have had Linux and definitely Windows boxes break on me too often, not to separate the two. Thanks for reading and best regards. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
