On Monday 30 January 2006 01:34, Martin Soltau wrote:
So... I can only hope that we both are on the right track then ;-)
I'm reasonably confident that's the case. :-)
Well... I formatted the partition. Is that what you mean?
Hi Martin, I just posted these instructions in another thread. They definitely apply to your situation, too: Before you reinstall again, from scratch (which is needed now,) boot into rescue mode, reiserfsck the filesystem for as many iterations as are needed to ensure it is clean, then mount the partition and manually erase the contents. This may seem hard to believe, at first, but the 'fast format' used during installation *does not* always prevent old data from 'bleeding through' from previously installed systems. When I moved to 10.0 from 9.3, I experienced this exact problem. It is a real "hair-puller" to diagnose. At the time, I 'met' others on this list (as well as on the opensuse list) who experienced the same problems. Installing to a 'dirty' partition can interfere with the installation itself *or not* and can cause unexplained configuration changes and 'creeping' filesystem corruptions to 'magically' appear. The procedure outlined above eliminates this problem. YMMV, of course (standard disclaimer!) regards, - Carl