Comments | chewi: Hard drive failure?

chewi

Hard drive failure?

Apr 17, 2008 01:25

Phew! At around 4pm today, my hard drive started acting up. It would occasionally pause for about 30 seconds, effectively freezing the system during that time. By the fourth time this happened, I was getting seriously worried so I immediately took a new incremental backup. That went without a hitch and I was able to breathe much easier. It seemed ( Read more... )

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kisobel April 17 2008, 07:17:12 UTC

Eek! Although if a hard drive was going to start misbehaving, I can't think of better hands it could be in than yours!

echopark19 April 17 2008, 10:39:41 UTC

I agree, cause even me being a network techincal trained i should know about incremental backup .... but wouldnt remember how to preform it or anytime of backup apart from AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH and try and write as much por ...... stuff to disc

nik_w May 18 2008, 13:10:12 UTC

Hey dude - I'm having issues with my server and with you being the only person I know who understands Gentoo, I was hoping you could help!:p

I've been randomly updating things this past few weeks and yesterday finally bit the bullet and upgraded perl. This wanted to upgrade lots of other packages that were compiled against it - one of these being binutils. Something seems to have gone astray during this process, as now gcc can't find as, and therefore is refusing to compile anything! as is exactly where I believe it's supposed to be (/usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/binutils-bin/2.18/as), but gcc doesn't seem to realise this... I can't figure out how to make gcc (or possibly ld) see it... I tried adding the directory to $PATH, but that's made no difference. Any ideas on how to fix the problem? Cheers!

chewi May 18 2008, 13:27:24 UTC

Yes! Try using binutils-config.

To list the available profiles and see which is selected, if any...
binutils-config -l

To select the second (or whatever) profile...
binutils-config 2

It should take effect in the current shell immediately. Other shells will probably require you to do source /etc/profile.

nik_w May 18 2008, 13:39:21 UTC

Found that on the confs and tried the first command, but it was already set to the current version, so I didn't bother reselecting it. Have now done so, and all is well again! Thanks a lot! I will try running perl-clean again now, as that was coming up with all manner of gcc errors, so hopefully it'll work now!

Incidentally, I have just seen this again when upgrading pam...

*
* Your current setup is using one or more of the following modules,
* that are not built or supported anymore:
* pam_pwdb, pam_radius, pam_timestamp, pam_console
* If you are in real need for these modules, please contact the maintainers
* of PAM through http://bugs.gentoo.org/ providing information about its
* use cases.
* Please also make sure to read the PAM Upgrade guide at the following URL:
* http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/pam/upgrade-0.99.xml
*
I went through all the files in /etc/pam.d/ the other ( ... )

chewi May 18 2008, 14:23:26 UTC

PAM allows you to authenticate for things in a variety of ways using a plugin architecture, hence the name Pluggable Authentication Modules. It's probably safe to say that you're not using any of those modules so you should remove or comment out any reference to them. Looking at the way the check is done in the ebuild, you haven't sufficiently done this. This is what I get ( ... )

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