Grant wrote:
>> > and the vi command always seg faults. Does that mean the /dev/hda3
>> > image is done-for and I should just start the laptop over from
scratch
>> > and import my /etc/ and /home/ directories when it's re-installed?
>>
>> I would try putting it all back and re-emerge everything (emerge -vaD
>> --emptytree world). It would fix if anything bad happened to the
compiled
>> things and you could start using the things which survived sooner.
>
> I tried re-emerging vim from within the chroot and I got:
>
> /usr/portage/eclass/vim.eclass: line 342: make: command not found
>
> What do you think?
>
Have you checked the laptop drive? If it is faulty then re-installing is
just wasting your time.
I would recommend checking the drive with smartmontools before going any
further. Given the problems outlined above, I would make a package for
it on your desktop and do a binary install of the result on the laptop.
I haven't checked the laptop drive yet. Can I make a smartmontools
package for the x86 laptop on the amd64 desktop? How can I do that?
Actually, I just noticed that smartmontools is installed on the livecd,
so just use that! Post the output of '/usr/sbin/smartctl -d ata -a
/dev/hda' - (assuming that your hard drive *is* /dev/hda of course...)
Cheers
Mark
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