Re: Power cut woes

2009-09-29 Thread Philip Heron
Mikkel wrote: What I would probably start with is boot to run level one, and run "rpm -Va | less". It may appear to sit there doing nothings, because this command only produces an output if it finds a mismatch. If you want to see what it is doing, you can add a -v to the command. (rpm -Va -v | le

Re: Power cut woes

2009-09-28 Thread Mikkel
Philip Heron wrote: > Hi all, > > I have an old PC running F10, setup to play a simple animation in a > display. Nothing fancy. Yesterday the town was hit with a series of > power cuts which seems to have well and truely mucked it up. I took a > picture of the kind of errors I'm getting: > > http

Re: Power cut woes

2009-09-28 Thread Mikkel
Craig White wrote: > > I think that there are many files left over from the abrupt shutdown > in /proc that have to be cleaned out which is why you are getting those > errors. > > Craig > proc - process information pseudo-file system It is created every time you boot, and does not carry over fr

Re: Power cut woes

2009-09-28 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
On 09/28/2009 11:57 AM, Philip Heron wrote: > Kevin J. Cummings wrote: >> I'd look into the "errors" that happen way before hal tries to start. >> I'd probably force an fsck on the partition that holds /etc because it >> looks like your /etc/passwd file is messed up Maybe all of your >> filesy

Re: Power cut woes

2009-09-28 Thread Philip Heron
Kevin J. Cummings wrote: I'd look into the "errors" that happen way before hal tries to start. I'd probably force an fsck on the partition that holds /etc because it looks like your /etc/passwd file is messed up Maybe all of your filesystems Then, again, perhaps this is the result of ru

Re: Power cut woes

2009-09-28 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
On 09/28/2009 11:05 AM, Philip Heron wrote: > Hi all, > > I have an old PC running F10, setup to play a simple animation in a > display. Nothing fancy. Yesterday the town was hit with a series of > power cuts which seems to have well and truely mucked it up. I took a > picture of the kind of error

Re: Power cut woes

2009-09-28 Thread Craig White
On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 16:05 +0100, Philip Heron wrote: > Hi all, > > I have an old PC running F10, setup to play a simple animation in a > display. Nothing fancy. Yesterday the town was hit with a series of > power cuts which seems to have well and truely mucked it up. I took a > picture of the

Power cut woes

2009-09-28 Thread Philip Heron
Hi all, I have an old PC running F10, setup to play a simple animation in a display. Nothing fancy. Yesterday the town was hit with a series of power cuts which seems to have well and truely mucked it up. I took a picture of the kind of errors I'm getting: http://www.bacomponents.co.uk/f10-s