Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1528 mails)

[Mark Goldstein <goldstein.mark@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 9:11 PM, Mark Goldstein <goldstein.mark@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Carlos E. R.
> <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 02/06/2010 01:25 PM, Mark Goldstein wrote:
> > > On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Mike McMullin <mwmcmlln@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > > > Unless you have more disks or more partitions and you didn't know. Or a
> > > > > filesystem loop mounted on top of another, but that needs some doing.
> > > >
> > > >  Wonder what's in /etc/fstab.
> > >
> > > Now you've got me ashamed...
> > > /etc/fstab says it's ext3. And it is dated by June 2008 - when I installed 
> > > 11.0.
> > > It looks like not just memory blackout, but rather sclerosis...
> >
> > Don't worry. It was interesting :-)
> >
> >
> > But now, you should really reformat that partition (as reiserfs if you 
> > like), and restore the data
> > from a backup. Because with all this fiddling the partition could be damaged 
> > in the structure and
> > give you a surprise one day - so better prevent :-)
>
> Unfortunately, you are right again :-(
> fsck for ext2 recovered the errors in partitions, and the system runs
> again ... mostly.
> zypper and yast crash now (and I did not play with reiserfschk on root
> partition, only on home).
> When it comes to "reading installed packages", zypper throws a number
> of "can't decompress" and then segfaults. rpm can read its db (at
> least rpm -qai works correctly).
Removing of one of subdirectories in /vat/cache/zypp/solv resolved it
(it was the last one mentioned in zypper log). Now updates seems
working.


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Mark Goldstein
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