Yep, it was the power supply. Got a new 350 W ATX power supply and all is well. Now tomorrow I will worry about those lost files. I'm going to just get them off my other Debian box which is configured similarly. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Darrell Shandrow" <nu7i@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Saturday, December 07, 2002 4:45 PM Subject: Re: recovering lost+found files > Hi Raul, > > First, from a later message, it sounds like your affected system has other > problems (possibly power supply related) that need to be resolved before you > can worry about replacing the missing files. As far as re-installing the > programs needed to extract any other missing packages, how about finding and > copying the missing binaries from either the CD-ROM on which your Linux > distro is located or another Linux box running the same distro? If you can > copy from another similarly configured box, then you'll know where the > replacement copy should be copied. :-)