On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 06:59 +0100, M. Fioretti wrote: > On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 22:20:04 PM -0700, Craig White > (craigwhite@xxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > > ---- > > no way that should have happened...you clearly have corrupted volume(s) > > and you need to back up your documents (settings if desired) and clean > > install. > > The thing I would be worried about is why this happened because it would > > seem likely to happen again. > > > > In other words, I can't believe that an update would cause the > > corruption unless the hard disk map was already broken and then the > > updates merely exacerbated the problem. > > OK, but even if there's nothing else to do but a clean install, before > I back up (hoping tar isn't corrupted either...) how can I find out > exactly what is broken (sw, hw...)? If nothing else, to report a bug, > be sure that it's just a sw and not hardware problem? Also because if > the _disk_ is broken, there's little point to reinstall on it, is > there? ---- agreed, if the disk is unreliable, there's little point of continuing to use it. rpm -Va > /tmp/package-verification.txt would probably be a good place to start Craig -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
