> emerge smartmontools > > then when that is done, do this: > > smartctl -t long /dev/sd<drive letter here> > > When you do that, it should print a message that tells when the test will > complete. It is usually a 24 hour format thing too. This can run while the > drive is in use too. Sometime after that time, run this command: > > smartctl -l selftest /dev/sd<drive letter here> > > That should tell you the results of the test. If it says it passed, this is > good. If it reports a problem, well it is not good. If you are lucky, it > will be like a recent problem I had and reformatting will fix it. It was a > weird problem but beats replacing a drive. >
I'm just wondering: can a tool like strace (or similar) be helpul in diagnose the problem? Maybe it could detect if konsole is trying to access a file that has too strict permissions, couldn't it? Just wondering, I never really used strace. Lorenzo -- Nothing is interesting if you're not interested.
