Thanks for the feedback. Not overclocking, i do have backups, and i'm wondering if its a faulty configuration problem (from a bad/interrupted download, etc) or something else. So, what is smartctl? How do I do a short or long (or any) test of my drive? Thanks!
-Carl On Dec 21, 2007 9:23 AM, Bryan Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2007/12/21, Carl Boettiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi, > > > > I've been having a series of problems with corrupted files owned by > root. > > (I'm running the Ubuntu Gutsy by the way, normal i386 install) The first > I > > noticed was an error whenever I ran apt-get update that turned out to be > do > > to some perl-base *.pm configuration files were corrupted into binary > mess. > > (thanks for your help earlier on this!) Most recently my > /etc/environment > > file became corrupted, this time with random ascii text inserted and the > > correct text missing. > > Put your current hard drives on ice, buy new ones, and copy to the new > ones while sacrificing chickens and old monitors to $DEITY. > > Unless you have backups, in which case, toss the old hard drives, buy > new ones, and copy to the new ones while sipping a martini. > > Take this with a grain of salt, of course, but honestly, I'd be > worried about the hardware. > > -Bryan > > -- > Bryan Richter > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech >
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