Well, it does not say a lot. The dmesg log can give you information after a read-write error. But it seems that this log is clean after a reboot. And this is what you just show me. Under root, you can launch dmesg -c, it will clean the dmesg log. If you run again dmesg (without the -c flag), you will se that it is empty. Then, try to lauch Pine or whatever command which failed, and type again dmesg (you don't need to be root to type dmesg (root only to clear it). Hope this will help, and give us a clue. You can also force a check filesystem on reboot with the command (root): shutdown -Fr now It will force fsck when rebooting. Good luck, and I am sure many skilled people will help you. Good luck, Philippe On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 20:04, Justin F. Kuo wrote: > >Subject: Re: lost in the pines > >From: Philippe <phd@fcomfrench.com> > >To: psyche-list <psyche-list@redhat.com> > >Organization: > >Date: 12 Jan 2003 10:44:56 +0700 > >Reply-To: psyche-list@redhat.com > > > >Hi, > > > >Yep, this looks bad to me, hardware problem ... > > > >Try to run dmesg, and looks what it says. > > > >Philippe > > > >On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 10:20, Justin F. Kuo wrote: > >> I'm new to Red Hat 8.0. I had the email reader, PINE, working two days > >> ago. Now, it's as though it no longer exists on my PC. > >> > >> [jkuo@mango jkuo]$ pine > >> -bash: pine: command not found > >> > >> Several other applications, including PICO, and PILOT are also missing. > >> > >> I attempted to look for it in the /usr/bin directory, but the ls > command > >> generated a bunch of errors. > >> > >> [jkuo@mango jkuo]$ ls /usr/bin/ -al > spool.txt > >> ls: /usr/bin/gpg-sign+encrypt: Input/output error > [snip] > > I ran the dmesg command and include the lengthy output below. What does > all of it mean? Thanks -- Justin > > (There are two harddrives in this box. The 60GB drive (hda) is for the > linux system, while the 30GB drive (hdc) contains Windows ME that was > orginally run on that box.) > > [jkuo@mango jkuo]$ dmesg > Linux version 2.4.18-19.8.0 (bhcompile@stripples.devel.redhat.com) (gcc > version > 3.2 20020903 (Red Hat Linux 8.0 3.2-7)) #1 Thu Dec 12 05:39:29 EST 2002 > BIOS-provided physical RAM map: > BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f800 (usable) > BIOS-e820: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) > BIOS-e820: 00000000000e7800 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) > BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000007ef0000 (usable) > BIOS-e820: 0000000007ef0000 - 0000000007effc00 (ACPI data) > BIOS-e820: 0000000007effc00 - 0000000007f00000 (ACPI NVS) > BIOS-e820: 0000000007f00000 - 0000000008000000 (reserved) > BIOS-e820: 00000000fff00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) > 0MB HIGHMEM available. > 126MB LOWMEM available. > On node 0 totalpages: 32496 > zone(0): 4096 pages. > zone(1): 28400 pages. > zone(2): 0 pages. > Kernel command line: ro root=LABEL=/ hdd=ide-scsi > ide_setup: hdd=ide-scsi > Initializing CPU#0 > Detected 701.580 MHz processor. > Speakup v-1.00 CVS: Tue Jun 11 14:22:53 EDT 2002 : initialized > Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 > Calibrating delay loop... 1393.96 BogoMIPS > Memory: 123816k/129984k available (1314k kernel code, 4768k reserved, > 989k data, > 172k init, 0k highmem) > Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) > Inode cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) > Mount cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 2, 16384 bytes) > ramfs: mounted with options: <defaults> > ramfs: max_pages=15603 max_file_pages=0 max_inodes=0 max_dentries=15603 > Buffer cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes) > Page-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) > CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000, vendor = 0 > CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K > CPU: L2 cache: 128K > CPU: After vendor init, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 > Intel machine check architecture supported. > Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0. > CPU: After generic, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 > CPU: Common caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 > CPU: Intel Celeron (Coppermine) stepping 03 > Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. > Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done. > Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. > POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX > mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au) > mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel > PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd99e, last bus=1 > PCI: Using configuration type 1 > PCI: Probing PCI hardware > Transparent bridge - Intel Corp. 82801AA PCI Bridge > PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX [8086/2410] at 00:1f.0 > PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:1f.5 > PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:1f.3 > PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 01:09.0 > PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 01:08.0 > PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:01.0 > isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... > isapnp: No Plug & Play device found > speakup: initialized device: /dev/synth, node (MAJOR 10, MINOR 25) > Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 > Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 > Initializing RT netlink socket > apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16) > Starting kswapd > VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.5.0 initialized > pty: 2048 Unix98 ptys configured > Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT > SHARE_IRQ SER > IAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled > ttyS0 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A > Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e > block: 240 slots per queue, batch=60 > Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31 > ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with > idebus=xx > PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev f9 > PIIX4: chipset revision 2 > PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later > ide0: BM-DMA at 0x10a0-0x10a7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio > ide1: BM-DMA at 0x10a8-0x10af, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio > hda: WDC WD600BB-75CAA0, ATA DISK drive > hdc: WDC WD307AA-00BAA0, ATA DISK drive > hdd: CR-4804TE, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive > ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 > ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 > blk: queue c03afd84, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) > blk: queue c03afd84, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) > hda: setmax LBA 117231408, native 117187500 > hda: 117187500 sectors (60000 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=7750/240/63, > UDMA(66) > blk: queue c03b00c8, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) > blk: queue c03b00c8, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) > hdc: 60074784 sectors (30758 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=59598/16/63, > UDMA(66) > ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide > Partition check: > hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 hda6 hda7 > > hdc: [PTBL] [3739/255/63] hdc1 > Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M > FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 > NET4: Frame Diverter 0.46 > RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize > ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide > md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27 > md: Autodetecting RAID arrays. > md: autorun ... > md: ... autorun DONE. > NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 > IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP > IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes > TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 16384) > Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM > NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. > RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 > Freeing initrd memory: 127k freed > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). > Journalled Block Device driver loaded > kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds > EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. > Freeing unused kernel memory: 172k freed > usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs > usb.c: registered new driver hub > usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 05:47:42 Dec 12 2002 > usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled > PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:1f.2 > PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1f.2 to 64 > usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0x1080, IRQ 11 > usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports > usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 > hub.c: USB hub found > hub.c: 2 ports detected > usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver > usb.c: registered new driver hiddev > usb.c: registered new driver hid > hid-core.c: v1.8.1 Andreas Gal, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz> > hid-core.c: USB HID support drivers > mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice > EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.18, 14 May 2002 on ide0(3,5), internal journal > Adding Swap: 257000k swap-space (priority -1) > kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds > EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.18, 14 May 2002 on ide0(3,1), internal journal > EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. > kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds > EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.18, 14 May 2002 on ide0(3,3), internal journal > EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. > kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds > EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.18, 14 May 2002 on ide0(3,2), internal journal > EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. > kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds > EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.18, 14 May 2002 on ide0(3,6), internal journal > EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. > SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 > scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices > Vendor: MITSUMI Model: CR-4804TE Rev: 2.6C > Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 > IA-32 Microcode Update Driver: v1.11 <tigran@veritas.com> > microcode: CPU0 updated from revision 16 to 20, date=02062001 > microcode: freed 2048 bytes > parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP] > ohci1394: pci_module_init failed > ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team > PCI: Enabling device 01:09.0 (0100 -> 0101) > PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 01:09.0 > PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:1f.3 > PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:1f.5 > 3c59x: Donald Becker and others. www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html > 01:09.0: 3Com PCI 3c905 Boomerang 100baseTx at 0x2440. Vers LK1.1.18-ac > divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0 > NET4: AppleTalk 0.18a for Linux NET4.0 > [jkuo@mango jkuo]$ -- Philippe, Chiangmai, Thailand -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
