Re: broken /var

2006-10-11 Thread David E. Fox
On Wed, 11 Oct 2006 14:54:01 +0200 Johannes Wiedersich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've also had some issues with reiserfs and have always sticked to ext3 > ever since. I guess the advantages of reiserfs don't warrant experiments > on important data. ext3 is rock solid on debian. YMMV. Well, I

Re: broken /var

2006-10-11 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
David E. Fox wrote: had a big problem this afternoon - had some serious issues with the reiserfs on /dev/hda1 (an oldish 1.6 gig maxtor), ended up not being able to fsck it to an orderly state. Had to redo the whole fs, (should have made a backup) and grab a /var from a ubuntu disk. Obviously, ub

Re: broken /var/lib/dpkg/status

2005-11-08 Thread Aaron Stromas
On 11/8/05, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Is there a graceful way to fix it? TIA,>Edit the file and change it to "libsm6 | xlibs (>> 4.1.0)" just plain editor? no fancy tools? worked, though. thanks! -a

Re: broken /var/lib/dpkg/status

2005-11-08 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 05:04:43PM -0500, Aaron Stromas wrote: > Greetings, > > apt-get complains: > dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 18124 package > `ksysguard': > `Depends' field, reference to `xlibs': version contains ` ' > > Indeed, the status file at that line look

Re: Broken /var filesystem

2005-08-07 Thread David A. Cobb
Joey Hess wrote: David A. Cobb wrote: I found a huge problem with my /var filesystem. Or, at least, fsck was going to take all day and more fixing 11 inode block numbers each pass. It's supposed to be possible to clean /var, or at least FHS suggests so. Not really, it only says yo

Re: Broken /var filesystem

2005-08-07 Thread David A. Cobb
Joey Hess wrote: David A. Cobb wrote: I found a huge problem with my /var filesystem. Or, at least, fsck was going to take all day and more fixing 11 inode block numbers each pass. It's supposed to be possible to clean /var, or at least FHS suggests so. Not really, it only says yo

Re: Broken /var filesystem

2005-08-06 Thread Joey Hess
David A. Cobb wrote: > I found a huge problem with my /var filesystem. Or, at least, fsck was > going to take all day and more fixing 11 inode block numbers each pass. > It's supposed to be possible to clean /var, or at least FHS suggests > so. Not really, it only says you can delete data fro