On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 06:33 -0700, Tom Patton wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 00:41 -0700, Tom Patton wrote:
> > It has been a week since updating anything here, my main pc "master" has

Well, this is almost too weird to be a hardware issue, but anything is
possible...

Sometime after the online update last weekend, I developed problems in
BOTH sata drives.../tmp on sda8 and /usr/lib on sdb2.  Reiser reported
bad blocks in those two partitions.  After two tries, reiser relocated
the bad block in /tmp, but unfortunately was not able to correct the one
in /usr/lib, saying it was in "the reiser system section".

I now have a virgin 10.3 on an ide drive, and am able to mount all the
other partitions, including two raid arrays.  I have not lost any data,
but can not restore the original (updated) system without having
the /usr/lib files available.  So I'm up a creek looking at re-installs
of everything.  

My question for the group here...well, actually two.  First, isn't it
strange to see problems on two (a Maxtor and a Seagate) drives at the
same time?  I'm leery of the update somehow!

Second question...my laptop contains almost an identical load of
programs, and the thought crossed my mind to try and copy its /usr/lib
into master as a quick fix.  However, it is an intel chip, and master is
an Athlon...so I'm guessing there would be too many differences in the
compiled libraries for that to work.  Agreed?  I guess I just have to
bite the bullet here, I know.  It's been a long night... :-(

If anyone is interested, although I can't boot the original system, I do
have access to all the (media)/var/logs.

Thanks for any sane input here...;-)
Tom in NM

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