Thanks for the feedback. Not overclocking, i do have backups, and i'm wondering if its a faulty configuration problem (from a bad/interrupted download, etc) or something else. So, what is smartctl? How do I do a short or long (or any) test of my drive? Thanks!
<br><br>-Carl<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 21, 2007 9:23 AM, Bryan Richter <<a href="mailto:bryan.richter@gmail.com">bryan.richter@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
2007/12/21, Carl Boettiger <<a href="mailto:cboettig@gmail.com">cboettig@gmail.com</a>>:<br><div class="Ih2E3d">> Hi,<br>><br>> I've been having a series of problems with corrupted files owned by root.<br>
> (I'm running the Ubuntu Gutsy by the way, normal i386 install) The first I<br>> noticed was an error whenever I ran apt-get update that turned out to be do<br>> to some perl-base *.pm configuration files were corrupted into binary mess.
<br>> (thanks for your help earlier on this!) Most recently my /etc/environment<br>> file became corrupted, this time with random ascii text inserted and the<br>> correct text missing.<br><br></div>Put your current hard drives on ice, buy new ones, and copy to the new
<br>ones while sacrificing chickens and old monitors to $DEITY.<br><br>Unless you have backups, in which case, toss the old hard drives, buy<br>new ones, and copy to the new ones while sipping a martini.<br><br>Take this with a grain of salt, of course, but honestly, I'd be
<br>worried about the hardware.<br><br>-Bryan<br><br>--<br><font color="#888888">Bryan Richter<br></font><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">_______________________________________________<br>vox-tech mailing list<br><a href="mailto:vox-tech@lists.lugod.org">
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