Re: [Scottish] Re: Fwd: rpmdb: DB.LOCK

2007-03-09 Thread Russell Cassidy
Peter George wrote: > Bizarrely not seeing my own posts hitting either list, or anyone's > replies. :-( > > Anyway, fsck from Kmoppix on /dev/sda1 & /dev/sda3 show OK. You said it was a PE1550? You could try the OMSA-Knoppix disks linked from: http://linux.dell.com/monitoring.shtml That would

Re: [Scottish] Re: Fwd: rpmdb: DB.LOCK

2007-03-09 Thread Adam Batkin
If you don't have any valuable data on the disk, you can ask e2fsck to run the badblocks program to check for bad physical blocks on the filesystem. See man e2fsck for more information. The Fedora CDs have a pretty good rescue mode which should do the trick at least for doing filesystem checks.

Re: [Scottish] Re: Fwd: rpmdb: DB.LOCK

2007-03-09 Thread Dan Shearer
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 10:11:13AM +, Peter George wrote: > Bizarrely not seeing my own posts hitting either list, or anyone's replies. > :-( > > Anyway, fsck from Kmoppix on /dev/sda1 & /dev/sda3 show OK. > > QTparted shows; > > /dev/sda > /dev/sda1 ext3 101Mb /boot > /dev/sda2 linux-swa

[Scottish] Re: Fwd: rpmdb: DB.LOCK

2007-03-09 Thread Peter George
Bizarrely not seeing my own posts hitting either list, or anyone's replies. :-( Anyway, fsck from Kmoppix on /dev/sda1 & /dev/sda3 show OK. QTparted shows; /dev/sda /dev/sda1 ext3 101Mb /boot /dev/sda2 linux-swap 508Mb /dev/sda3 ext3 *Mb / I'm going to try another FC6 install, testing the