Re: Important commands lose permissions after upgrades.

2009-10-09 Thread Jochen Schulz
Nuno Magalhães: > On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 11:52, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> Jochen Schulz put forth on 10/9/2009 1:57 AM: >>> >>> I hate hard disks. Never trust them, irrespective of their age. >> >> I second that. > > Thanks for the input but i can't see how hard-drive failiure would > make specif

Re: Important commands lose permissions after upgrades.

2009-10-09 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 11:52, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Jochen Schulz put forth on 10/9/2009 1:57 AM: >> >> I hate hard disks. Never trust them, irrespective of their age. > > I second that. Thanks for the input but i can't see how hard-drive failiure would make specific system commands lose permiss

Important commands lose permissions after upgrades.

2009-10-09 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Jochen Schulz put forth on 10/9/2009 1:57 AM: > > I hate hard disks. Never trust them, irrespective of their age. I second that. I've got two 9GB Barracuda SCSI disks that have been running non-stop in a server since 1996--13 years. I bought a Maxtor single platter 40GB IDE drive in 2003 for a

Re: Important commands lose permissions after upgrades.

2009-10-08 Thread Jochen Schulz
Nuno Magalhães: > Jochen Schulz: >> The first thing I would do in your situation is to make sure my disk >> isn't dying. Run a forced fsck on all filesystems (including /) and use >> smartctl (packege: smartmontools) to check your disk for errors. > > Erhm... the drive's fairily recent, it's a "Ma

Re: Important commands lose permissions after upgrades.

2009-10-08 Thread Nuno Magalhães
2009/8/25 Nuno Magalhães : >> The first thing I would do in your situation is to make sure my disk >> isn't dying. Run a forced fsck on all filesystems (including /) and use >> smartctl (packege: smartmontools) to check your disk for errors. > > Erhm... the drive's fairily recent, it's a "Maxtor 16

Re: Important commands lose permissions after upgrades.

2009-08-25 Thread Nuno Magalhães
> The first thing I would do in your situation is to make sure my disk > isn't dying. Run a forced fsck on all filesystems (including /) and use > smartctl (packege: smartmontools) to check your disk for errors. Erhm... the drive's fairily recent, it's a "Maxtor 160GB SATA II 7200RPM 8Mb Cache" fr

Re: Important commands lose permissions after upgrades.

2009-08-25 Thread Jochen Schulz
Nuno Magalhães: > > This is the second apt-get dist-upgrade that i've done recently and > the second time i get this issue. After the upgrade, many important > commands lose permissions (i.e. chmod 000), which has caused me weird > boots and sometimes nagging the lists with incorrect problems - li

Important commands lose permissions after upgrades.

2009-08-25 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Hi, This is the second apt-get dist-upgrade that i've done recently and the second time i get this issue. After the upgrade, many important commands lose permissions (i.e. chmod 000), which has caused me weird boots and sometimes nagging the lists with incorrect problems - like why isn't swap moun