Re: [newbie] Interesting Dilemma

2003-06-15 Thread Richard Urwin
On Sunday 15 Jun 2003 3:13 am, Brian Parish wrote: On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 11:49, JoeHill wrote: WARNING!!! Running e2fsck on a mounted filesystem may cause SEVERE filesystem damage. Do you really want to continue (y/n)? no OK, the easiest way to handle this is to boot from the first

Re: [newbie] Interesting Dilemma

2003-06-15 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 08:22:55 -0500 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Did you rip to wav's or mp3's? I've never had any luck normalizing anything but wav's. I get segfaults and corrupt mp3's trying to normalize them ... just part way thru ; rip to wav. I didn't know normalize would

Re: [newbie] Interesting Dilemma

2003-06-15 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 11:10:15 +0100 Richard Urwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: The correct way is to drop to single user mode with telinit 1. Then unmount /home if it is still mounted read-write. That would have avoided a reboot? In any case, would it have allowed me to simply delete or otherwise

Re: [newbie] Interesting Dilemma

2003-06-15 Thread Richard Urwin
On Sunday 15 Jun 2003 2:39 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 11:10:15 +0100 Richard Urwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: The correct way is to drop to single user mode with telinit 1. Then unmount /home if it is still mounted read-write. That would have avoided a reboot? Yes. It would

Re: [newbie] Interesting Dilemma

2003-06-14 Thread Brian Parish
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 09:25, JoeHill wrote: Hi all, I ripped some cd tracks to make a cd for a friend chris. I ran normalize -m * in the dir ~/mp3/chris, and it segfaulted part of the way through. Now, if I try to even list the contents of the dir, the shell freezes, ctrl-c will not

Re: [newbie] Interesting Dilemma

2003-06-14 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 14 June 2003 07:25 pm, JoeHill wrote: Any way out of this? I just want to delete the dir and start over. I cannot even delete the parent dir! Any help appreciated, as always. First thing I would do is boot up with wither the rescue cd or something like knoppix and run fsck on

Re: [newbie] Interesting Dilemma

2003-06-14 Thread JoeHill
On 15 Jun 2003 10:16:29 +1000 Brian Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Sounds like the file system is corrupt. Have you tried fsck on this partition? everything else is fine. only that directory is screwed. I am not familiar with fsck, but from the man page it seems to be a big stick for a

Re: [newbie] Interesting Dilemma

2003-06-14 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 10:37, JoeHill wrote: On 15 Jun 2003 10:16:29 +1000 Brian Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Sounds like the file system is corrupt. Have you tried fsck on this partition? everything else is fine. only that directory is screwed. I am not familiar with fsck, but

Re: [newbie] Interesting Dilemma

2003-06-14 Thread JoeHill
On 15 Jun 2003 10:55:46 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Have you tried to rename that directory, or move the contents of that directory elsewhere, then delete the directory, then recreate the directory and move all the old contents back into it? I can rename the dir, but I

Re: [newbie] Interesting Dilemma

2003-06-14 Thread JoeHill
On 15 Jun 2003 10:16:29 +1000 Brian Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Sounds like the file system is corrupt. Have you tried fsck on this partition? hmmm, this does not sound encouraging: fsck 1.32 (09-Nov-2002) e2fsck 1.32 (09-Nov-2002) /dev/hda6 is mounted. WARNING!!! Running e2fsck on

Re: [newbie] Interesting Dilemma

2003-06-14 Thread Dennis Myers
On Saturday 14 June 2003 08:46 pm, JoeHill wrote: On 15 Jun 2003 10:55:46 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Have you tried to rename that directory, or move the contents of that directory elsewhere, then delete the directory, then recreate the directory and move all the old

Re: [newbie] Interesting Dilemma

2003-06-14 Thread Dennis Myers
On Saturday 14 June 2003 08:49 pm, JoeHill wrote: On 15 Jun 2003 10:16:29 +1000 Brian Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Sounds like the file system is corrupt. Have you tried fsck on this partition? hmmm, this does not sound encouraging: fsck 1.32 (09-Nov-2002) e2fsck 1.32

Re: [newbie] Interesting Dilemma

2003-06-14 Thread Brian Parish
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 11:49, JoeHill wrote: On 15 Jun 2003 10:16:29 +1000 Brian Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Sounds like the file system is corrupt. Have you tried fsck on this partition? hmmm, this does not sound encouraging: fsck 1.32 (09-Nov-2002) e2fsck 1.32 (09-Nov-2002)

Re: [newbie] Interesting Dilemma

2003-06-14 Thread Curt Tresenriter
On Sat, 14 Jun 2003 21:05:33 -0500, Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 14 June 2003 08:46 pm, JoeHill wrote: On 15 Jun 2003 10:55:46 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Have you tried to rename that directory, or move the contents of that directory elsewhere, then

Re: [newbie] Interesting Dilemma

2003-06-14 Thread JoeHill
On 15 Jun 2003 12:13:19 +1000 Brian Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: WARNING!!! Running e2fsck on a mounted filesystem may cause SEVERE filesystem damage. Ah, so this is the problem is that fsck is dangerous when run on an active filesystem. OK, the easiest way to handle this is to

Re: [newbie] Interesting Dilemma

2003-06-14 Thread JoeHill
On Sat, 14 Jun 2003 19:25:51 -0400 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Well, fsck fsck! All I had to do was reboot... damn! I had a good one goin there... 11 days, no problems and then something like normalize brings me down...and from the CLI no less! Oh well, start again :( Thanks for all