Problems with 2.0 upgrade (hardware?)
I've just got the Cheap*bytes Debian 4 CD set (from the Linux emporium
<http://www.polo.demon.co.uk/emporium.html> in the UK - ordered Thurs
am, received Fri am!).
Yesterday tried to upgrade my bo system. I ran into the problems
that others have found with the cd_autoup.sh script, as well as the
lack of a "stable" symbolic link on the cd, but managed to solve these
(less elegantly than the posted solutions...).
Well into the remainder of the upgrade I started getting e2fs error
messages, and wound up losing about half of my home directory. This
being Linux and Debian I'm inclined to assume hardware problems first,
but I'm asking here in case anyone else has had the same problems.
Although I ran script to log the upgrade it doesn't seem to log these
error messages. What I now have is a rather full lost+found directory,
from which I can salvage quite a bit, and a large number of files that
have become block special files which I can do nothing to - can't rm
them, and haven't managed to figure out how to turn them into a normal
file in case there's something salvageable hidden there.
Since I have these scattered around the file system too I suspect I
need to do a wipe and reinstall, although the system is acting OK at
the moment - I don't think all files installed properly as some files
that should have been replaced had turned into block special files
and therefore couldn't be overwritten.
If anyone has come across these problems I'd like to know, especially
if they have some solutions other than a complete re-install. I'd also
like to know how to do something to those block special files!
Thanks for any pointers,
Kevin
Dr Kevin Scott
Philips Electronics UK Limited
Patents and Trade Marks Department Tel: +44 1293 815281
Cross Oak Lane, Redhill Fax: +44 1293 815060
Surrey RH1 5HA, UK E-mail: scottkj@prl.research.philips.com
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