On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, Richard Salts wrote about, electrical failures:
> From time to time it happens unexpedly. The power to one's home or
> business fails while Linux, if used at either place is running. Suddenly,
> when the power fails and Linux is extinguished, it's a difficult thing to
> bring it back up again. Especially when it is searching for things and
> cannot find them.
Now i have tuned off kicked off shut off comuters without shutting them
down properly, i have never had any problems when restarting, fsck will
complain about inodes with zero dtimes and the likes but i have never
experianced any loss of data. Normaly speaking if a file is open in a
editor like JOE for example then the file should still be there in its
origanal state ipon booting, or if you are lucky a DEADJOE will be found,
thats the file you were editing when the system went down.
> I'm having that trouble now with Linux-Mandrake 6.0. So far I've run it
> about five times and cannot get the GUI up and going. It will get me into
> the console but that's all. I try to run fsck but nothing happens. It
> seems that a bunch of things are missing, corrupted or what. I just don't
> know and I _do_not_ want to have to go through an another installation.
The question here is did it work beforehand, if the answer is yes, then it
should work now.
You say fsck does nothing, for example you enter fsck /dev/hdb5 and get
the following returned;
Parallelizing fsck version 1.15 (18-Jul-1999)
e2fsck 1.15, 18-Jul-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
/dev/hdb5: clean, 11/193152 files, 6077/385552 blocks
then that means there is nothing wrong with your drive period.
If you try to fsck a mounted drive then you will get;
/dev/hdb3 is mounted.
WARNING!!! Running e2fsck on a mounted filesystem may cause
SEVERE filesystem damage.
Do you really want to continue (y/n)?
>
> Is there anything I can do to correct matters or something short of a
> complete reinstall?
Short of a complete install,?? in my experiance +/- 8 years of llinux there
is "never" the need to reinstall.
So did the command "startx" ever work for you before you had the power
failure.
Have you ever set up X properly, ??.
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> Thanks for any guidance
>
> Richard
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