Yea! Replying to myself. My Gentoo Linux installtion is dead, dead as a doornail. Oh well. After doing a reiserfsck --fix-fixable /dev/hda5 (which looked less threatening then --rebuild-tree), I couldn't even mount /dev/hda5 in Knoppix, complaining about a lack of directory or some such. And instead of hanging on module dependancies, the kernel gave up on an error that the root file system couldn't be mounted. So I did a reiserfsck --rebuild-tree /dev/hda5, which created a lost+found directory of ~700 megabytes (a bad sign). Now I can boot Gentoo, but I can't login because when I do there's an error about PAM not being able to load. There are various boot-time errors about such-and-such library not being able to load as well. So, oh well, time to give up I think. I have 4 tests next week (hey class, I know you don't want another test during midterm, so we'll have it the week before - in pratically every class), so I'm probably just going to keep using Knoppix/Windows XP until I have the chance to reinstall. There's no important data stored on my / partition (if there was I think I could in fact recover it), its just a big hassle to have to reinstall.
I would like to think that this is a Reiserfs issue, but that might be wishful thinking. I think the repartitioning I did was just the straw that broke the camels back. Any suggestions on how to check on the condition of my 8-month old IBM Deathstar? In other words, should I even bother reinstalling on this hard drive? Windows XP appears to work fine, but then again that part of the hard disk isn't used very much; perhaps thats why. I did install another (old, 14 gig) hard drive over the Christmas break, which took some internal rearranging, I plan on having someone who knows what they're doing take a look at it. Maybe there's somethign wrong with a ribbon or some (cheap) problem like that (fingers crossed). Ian Monroe http://www.monroe.nu On Sun, 23 Feb 2003, Ian Monroe wrote: > > After doing some more repartitioning*, and the computer booted up fine and > all was going well. Partitions reported being at the size they should be > etc. Then while doing an emerge (how you install new software in Gentoo), > a program related to it called ebuild.sh started taking up like 100% CPU > (it was what I think is called kernel mode, the bar was red, which usually > only happens during things like hard drive access.) And it didn't seem to > be doing anything, so I CRTL-Ced, but my CPU monitor still showed 100% CPU > usage. > [snip: blah blah, my computer sucks] ----------------------------------------------------------------- To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe -----------------------------------------------------------------
