[Scottish] Re: Fwd: rpmdb: DB.LOCK

[Adam Batkin]

If you don't have any valuable data on the disk, you can ask e2fsck to run the 
badblocks program to check for bad physical blocks on the filesystem. See man 
e2fsck for more information. The Fedora CDs have a pretty good rescue mode which 
should do the trick at least for doing filesystem checks. Don't forget to add -f 
to e2fsck since it might "think" the filesystem is clean and decide not to check 
any further.

-Adam Batkin

Peter George wrote:
> Bizarrely not seeing my own posts hitting either list, or anyone's 
> replies. :-(
> 
> Anyway, fsck from Kmoppix on /dev/sda1 & /dev/sda3 show OK.
> 
> QTparted shows;
> 
> /dev/sda
> /dev/sda1  ext3 101Mb /boot
> /dev/sda2  linux-swap 508Mb
> /dev/sda3  ext3  *Mb /
> 
> I'm going to try another FC6 install, testing the media this time.
> 
> What other disk testing/formatting tools can I try from Linux rescue
> disk or Knoppix?
> 
> P
> 
> 
> On 08/03/07, Peter George <peter at netresources.co.uk> wrote:
>> Funny, not seeing my own posts to the lists or any responses. Gmail.
>>
>> Thanks for the tips Dan, I got some ideas of things to try off
>> #scotlug. Will post when fixed, citing what helped.
>>
> 
>> On 08/03/07, Dan Shearer <dan at shearer.org> wrote:
>> > On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 09:45:22PM +0000, Peter George wrote:
>> >
>> > > Are my posts getting through to EdLug and ScotLug? (See below).
>> >
>> > Yep, saw them both (suggestion: pls Cc in future to help remind each
>> > that the other exists.)
>> >
>> > You're best off dropping in to #scotlug and asking online.
>> >
>> > Personally I'd start the install and then verify the various steps
>> > manually as they happen in another console. Definitely don't believe 
>> any
>> > errors a GUI shows you -- but that's ok because we get access to 
>> quite a
>> > bit of the guts anyway.  I guess you ran an example rpm command
>> > manually, what did it say?
>> >
>> > You have checked fundamental stuff have you? Like booting with a LiveCD
>> > from the same distro and version number to see if there is a 
>> fundamental
>> > no likee hardware.
>> >
>> > If any of these suggestions have helped please tell the lists so it 
>> gets
>> > archived for other people (otherwise my writing is wasted :-)
>> >
>> > > How did you get on with Sarah?
>> >
>> > Well, in the sense that we don't hate each other, she's sure I can help
>> > her in her business including at the earliest stages, and now she 
>> has to
>> > decide if she's going to proceed and if so how. She's busy writing an
>> > unrelated book for the next couple of weeks tho.
>> >
>> > Thanks for the intro, and I've already mentioned how at one level there
>> > could be a tie in between what she'd like to do and what you've told me
>> > you'd like to do. Eg giving you R&D ready-cooked for running courses.
>> >
>> > D
>> >
>>
>>
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>> Peter George
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