Am Dienstag, 3. Januar 2012, 11:26:54 schrieb Lorenzo Bandieri: > > 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
a) we allready know where the problem hides - thanks to ~/.xession-errors your first stop when some X based app has problems. b) strace will drown you in output. c) in this case I have my doubts that the output would be helpfull at all (because I strace'd Konsole ;) ) w -- #163933
