On Thursday 18 November 2010 19:20:51 Allan Gottlieb wrote: > Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> writes: > > On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 11:29:21 -0500, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > >> 3. Other files proved missing as well > >> > >> I went to another machine which is multilib and copied the libssl from > >> the lib32 directory. Then it asked for libcrypto so I copied that > >> now it asks for libkrb5.so.3. After a few more iterations, I succeeded! > >> > >> But clearly something is wrong. > >> > >> It is NO problem for me to take this machine out of service for a few > >> days and run an emerge -e world. Are there risks in this? > >> Is there a better idea? > > > > If files are disappearing, I'd say fsck is needed more that emerge. > > Thanks. > > I suspected emerge since all the files seemed to be related to openssl and > everything else was working. But, as usual, you are doubtless right. > > All files except root checked fine. > > I used to do fsck on root via > > mount -o remount,ro /dev/sdaX > e2fsck -f /dev/sdaX > > But now the mount replies that / is busy. > > I read the e2fsck man page. It says using -n is safe on a mounted file > system unless fsck itself tells you not to but you can't trust the > output. > > The output was a few errors reported, but of course not fixed. > > Then I read the source and found /forcefsck > > This worked fine and the next reboot checked all filesystems and > reported no errors. > > Should I now run emerge -e world? If so, I suppose I should stop cron > from running an emerge --sync during the night.
I used to do the same with reiserfs, but since I borked badly a reiser4 fs I decided it is safer to use a LiveCD for this job. So I have to say YMMV. ;-) -- Regards, Mick
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