Re: Reiserfs corruption and KDM login problems
On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 08:51:55AM -0500, David Bruce wrote:
> I have a problem with my Sid system after an unplanned reboot due to a power
> outage. The reiserfsck fails to fix my /home (I have an LVM/raid1 setup) and
> says I need to do it manually using reiserfsck --rebuild-tree, which also
> fails, saying I need to use reiserfs --rebuild-sb, which also fails. I
> think I may need to migrate my /home to ext3 or something.
There was a thread not that long ago about this very issue. I have
unreliable power without UPS. I migrated from ext3 due to power-failure
induced corruption and I moved from reiserfs to JFS for the same reason.
I have had absolutly no problems with JFS.
On the other hand, Sid is by definition unstable. Perhaps there's a bug
in your version of reiserfsck.
Search the archives for entries containing both reiserfs and jfs; it may
prove usefull.
>
> Anyway, after resuming the boot sequence, the system seems to come up normally
> and I can log in without problems. However, my wife's login is hosed. KDM
> displays a dialog saying:
>
> " Could not start kstartupconfig. Check your installation"
>
> It seems her ~/.kde directory has problems with corrupted file permissions.
>
> debian:/home/janis/.kde# ls -l
> total 0
> ?--------- ? ? ? ? ? Autostart
> ?--------- ? ? ? ? ? cache-debian
> ?--------- ? ? ? ? ? share
> ?--------- ? ? ? ? ? socket-debian
> ?--------- ? ? ? ? ? tmp-debian
>
> Is there a quick fix I can do to get her into her email for today?
Use mutt.
>I tried copying my own .kde into her home and changing the ownership,
>but KDM locked up when I tried to log in as her. Maybe I should create
>a new user account for her and manually move data from her home dir?
>Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>
I hope you have good backups. If you don't make one with the data you
have now.
As a temp fix I suppose you could move her data but if the reiserfs on
which home is built is partially corrupt then you're building a brick
wall on a house of cards.
If you have a spare partition or drive, make one with JFS and copy the
data to that.
Good luck.
Doug.
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