SI Reasoning wrote: > --- SI Reasoning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>For some reason my/usr/share/config/kdm/Xservers and >>Xaccess are gone. I noticed this after a compile >>although I cannot imagine how it could be related >> >> > as it turned out my /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc was > hosed. Unfortunately even kcontrol did not reset it up > properly. Fortunately I had another server that I > could pull the config files from to get it running > again. My /usr directory is using xfs and I suspect > that all of my laptop crash tests (trying to > suspend/resume) may be creating some file corruption. > I also had something like this happen to my kmailrc > file (but my /home directory is on reiserfs) Where it > looked like part of the autobookmarks or something > like that took over part of the kmailrc file. > > Is it really this easy to corrupt files using these > journaled file systems? >
I have lost kdm a number of times on different machines due to a power loss when running with XFS on a root partition. Easiest way to fix is was rpm -Uvh kdebase*.rpm --force But no, this shouldn't happen! Which FS were you using ? -- |----------------Registered Linux User #182071-----------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x202 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/gpg.key
