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[Sid Boyce <sboyce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

AmigaPhil@xxxxxxx wrote:
> Carlos E. R. (robin1.listas@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote something I wish to comment :
> (news:<Pine.LNX.4.61.0506172247260.11566@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> posted on 17-juin-05
> 21:50:01)
>
>
> > > So in the end, it seems the files were not missing as I thought,
> > > just "unavailable" (???)
> > > How could it be that Konqueror is hidding files to root ?
> > > How could it be that root is refused access to some files ?
> >
> > If your partition is reiser, it is a known problem. You need to boot from
> > the dvd, and run a "reiserfsck" on it. It is known that when a reiserfs
> > part. gets corrupted, one of the symptoms is the "Permission denied"
> > message to root.
>
>
> Oh s..t.  At installation time, I was thinking to use ext3 partitions
> instead.  But then I saw the ReiserFS was default with Suse, and I
> opted for it.
The only times I've had reiserfs problems they have been due to hardware 
on the way out - IDE controller chips and other motherboard faults, 
reiserfsck has corrected the problem, but much later some hardware has 
died and that goes way back to when we first moved from ext2 (problems 
with ext2 also) to reiserfs. There is nothing unreliable about reiserfs 
and I'm using it on 3 SuSE boxes, 1 Mandrake, 1 gentoo and 1 Mandriva 
LE2005 box. When I was at work, I used Linux only on my laptop with 
SuSE/reiserfs in full confidence as it was my main tool with masses of 
work related stuff that was critically needed at customer sites, of 
course, backed up to my home machine with SuSE/reiserfs. I'm eagerly 
looking forward to reiser4 going mainstream.

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> So, step 3: re-install the xorg package again with yast.
>
> No problem this time, the package was installed properly.
>
>
> Step 4: Run Yast Online Update (YOU)
>
> At least to make sure the packages replaced during the system repair
> process are up-to-date.
>
>
> Step 5: Configure X11 and the keyboard with Yast > Sax2
>
> Hey, I can now print the missing keys in the test key gadget !
>
>
>
> AND *DONE* !   The keyboard configuration issue is closed now.
>
>
> Thanks to all !
Is that some sort of keypad you are using? I had a look at YaST 
yesterday, but it seemed to only offer configuration of one keyboard, so 
I didn't go any further to try to get my USB phone keypad working.

> (I wonder if I'll take the assle to switch from ReiserFS to Ext3.
>  Is there a tool which perform a backup, format the partition,
>  and restore the backup to it without much pain ?)
You could use something like rsync to blast it off to another box. If as 
I suspect it's hardware, you could at least prove that by going ext3 and 
getting the same problem.
Regards
Sid.
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Retired IBM Mainframes and Sun Servers Tech Support Specialist
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