Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> writes: > On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 11:29:21 -0500, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > >> 3. Other files proved missing as well >> >> I went to another machine which is multilib and copied the libssl from >> the lib32 directory. Then it asked for libcrypto so I copied that >> now it asks for libkrb5.so.3. After a few more iterations, I succeeded! >> >> But clearly something is wrong. >> >> It is NO problem for me to take this machine out of service for a few >> days and run an emerge -e world. Are there risks in this? >> Is there a better idea? > > If files are disappearing, I'd say fsck is needed more that emerge.
Thanks. I suspected emerge since all the files seemed to be related to openssl and everything else was working. But, as usual, you are doubtless right. All files except root checked fine. I used to do fsck on root via mount -o remount,ro /dev/sdaX e2fsck -f /dev/sdaX But now the mount replies that / is busy. I read the e2fsck man page. It says using -n is safe on a mounted file system unless fsck itself tells you not to but you can't trust the output. The output was a few errors reported, but of course not fixed. Then I read the source and found /forcefsck This worked fine and the next reboot checked all filesystems and reported no errors. Should I now run emerge -e world? If so, I suppose I should stop cron from running an emerge --sync during the night. thanks again, allan
