On Thursday 10 August 2006 23:45, stephan beal wrote:
i *always* do a fresh install, because i don't trust any OS upgrade process (not biased against Suse, just against upgrades in general).
That's called 'experienced user' syndrome ;-)
However, my /home partition was of course *not* reformatted, and if it was corrupted before, then of course the 10.1 install would have inherited that corruption.
This would be my guess, too.
For now i'm going to assume that the reiserfs corruption was the problem and hope/pray that it doesn't happen again. i was, luckily enough, able to tar up my /home directories, rescuing my evening's worth of C++ code. The --rebuild-tree process only deleted 8 files, none of which i use, and most of which were old HTML and PDF files generated by Lyx more than 2 years ago.
Thanks a lot for your feedback!
Glad you were able to 'land' this one gracefully. Carl