On 12/15/2007 03:49 AM, Tom Patton wrote: > > 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. Sounds like a problem in the reiserfs code. > 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". > If this was indeed caused by the update, have you tried booting with the rescue disk, which has the original kernel, and tried doing a reiserfsck on sdb2. It should have pre-update reiser code which should at least work. > 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. > Shouldn't be > 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! > That definitely sounds fishy to me as well, worth a bugzilla AFTER you are running again. > 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. Unless they have exactly the same mix of programs, not a good idea. > 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? No, I don't think the processor would make that much difference. > Thanks for any sane input here...;-) > Tom in NM > > Try using the rescue system to check your filesystem. If that works, you could then copy the contents to your root partition and change your fstab (i.e. mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt, then cp /mnt /usr/lib), or some variation of that.
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