Re: ack! help!!!! something went dreadfully wrong!

I have to agree with Tobi, you are just living on borrowed time (in true 
cliched fashion!). I would certainly recommend doing an fsck, but the 
best thing would be to get a new hd. Format it ReiserFS, move your /home 
(and any other data directories) as well as your /etc to the new hd. If 
nothing goes wrong with your old hd, well, you have some extra space 
lying around. Otherwise, you can just re-install your os on the new 
machine and junk your old one without worrying about your data.

Hope it all works out
Aditya

Tobias Schlottke wrote:

>Hi Sav,
>nice that you've got your system working again but I think your theory doesn't 
>make sense at all (sorry ;)).
>
>I still believe that your harddisk is the one to blame, it's got some serious 
>problems and you should replace it asap.
>The reason why it's working atm is (like someone else said before) that you 
>reinstalled all files that where on the damaged sectors of your harddisk and 
>placed them on other sectors -
>You'll get those errors again if you write onto those sectors some day, I'm 
>nearly sure.
>Well, you may be lucky :)
>Have fun!
>
>Tobi
>
>
>
>On Freitag, 09. Januar 2004 03:12, Savanna wrote:
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>>thanks. =)
>>
>>yes, but i can't get a hard drive right now because it's late and i
>>probably am going out tomorrow night and stuff (and seeing lots of friends
>>this weekend too) so i might have to put it off till monday i think. either
>>way, my system is up for now. it appears stable and works very well as far
>>as i can see. i have all the nice little addons like bouncing cursors when
>>i open an app, new themes, and stuff like that. so it appears to work fine
>>and *no* error messages whatsoever.
>>
>>here is what i think happened:
>>
>>i think that when i upgraded last night, i had such an old kernel that it
>>must have upgraded some drivers i couldn't use.
>>
>>when i installed kde last night, it installed them using those drivers and
>>thus, the problem emerged. i think that it may not be the hard drive at
>>all.
>>
>>after i installed the new kernel today, it still wouldn't work, but that's
>>because it was using the *old* configs. when i uninstalled kde completely,
>>and reinstalled it from scratch, it fixed itself because the new drivers
>>were put in place with the new kernel (2.4.23 on debian) and thus, the
>>problem was solved. that's the only reason i can think of that it's running
>>right now. if it really was the hard drive, it wouldn't be running and it
>>would still give me errors, right? i mean i didn't actually *do* anything
>>other than upgrade the kernel and reinstall from scratch. that wouldn't fix
>>a hardware error like that, would it?
>>
>>anyway, tell me what you think? does my theory make sense? if it does, then
>>it isn't a hardware problem like i thought it might not be =)
>>    
>>
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