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mienensuchkind

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Registered: 2007-01-21

Posts: 61

Some strange things happened this morning.

Hi,
just wanted to ask if anybody expirienced comparable things in the last time:

Yesterday i hat no /bin/shutdown, so i couldnt shutdown... it was like *gone*. So i killed my PC the hard way. Today i was booting again, and the nvidia module couldn't be loaded for some reason... so i had to remove and reinstall it. Then, my centerim was gone, totally! Reinstalled it - no problems. Whats up with me?

dyscoria

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Registered: 2008-01-10

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Re: Some strange things happened this morning.

hmm odd! Have you still got hard drive space left in your root partition? Maybe it's getting filled up and deleting random things.

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phildg

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Registered: 2006-03-10

Posts: 146

Re: Some strange things happened this morning.

The system shouldn't delete anything due to a full hdd. I think disk full messages should be printed to the console when that is the case.

I'd rather put money on a failing hdd or a corrupted filesystem. The first thing I would try is to boot up the arch install cd and fsck the filesystem.

stonecrest

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From: Boulder

Registered: 2005-01-22

Posts: 1,190

Re: Some strange things happened this morning.

The shutdown binary should be in /sbin, not /bin.

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mienensuchkind

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Registered: 2007-01-21

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Re: Some strange things happened this morning.

/ isnt full, there is like 4gb free space...
and i made a mistake, /sbin/shutdown was there, but when i typed "shutdown -h now" it says that "shutdown" is an unknown command. (i just had that error again!). root uses bash as default shell... it didnt work in tty, it didnt work in urxvt, this time i typed /sbin/shutdown -h now and that worked... but its still not like it should be. And it doesnt explain the random corruption of packages...

EDIT:
Same problem with any other files out of /sbin...  the strange thing is, in /etc/profile, $PATH looks like this:

/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/opt/bin:/home/jan/bin:/usr/local/bin

but echo $PATH gives me:

./:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin

Last edited by mienensuchkind (2008-03-09 15:52:26)

Allan

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From: Brisbane, AU

Registered: 2007-06-09

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Re: Some strange things happened this morning.

Do you have another PATH statement in .bashrc  .  Looks like you added "./" to your path and may have made a mistake at that time.

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OzMick

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Registered: 2007-10-04

Posts: 11

Re: Some strange things happened this morning.

VERY similar thing happened to me the other day, thought it was me breaking it after a bad restart of X but maybe it wasn't... I first noticed that firefox wouldn't start, and seeing as it had been a while I updated the package and fixed that though.

Then the girlfriend mentioned that she couldn't view the TV guide my computer has hosted. Turns out Java was out too, but an updated packaged didn't fix it. Then I noticed a few other things had gone screwy, all my custom defined sessions had lost their names, and custom KDE based menu items were screwed up too. And only then I became suspicious about the path variable.

Turns out I didn't even HAVE a /etc/profile file anymore. It had vanished... Everything is back working since I worked out what was the problem, but this problem sounds eerily familiar to mine...

mienensuchkind

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Registered: 2007-01-21

Posts: 61

Re: Some strange things happened this morning.

cant find any other $PATH statement... there is just the one from /etc/profile, which looks quite ok to me... what can i do?

praka123

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From: Kerala,India

Registered: 2008-03-04

Posts: 188

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Re: Some strange things happened this morning.

well,if some packages are corrupt,try reinstalling the packages using:

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … 99#p326499

mienensuchkind

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Registered: 2007-01-21

Posts: 61

Re: Some strange things happened this morning.

@prakta: that one is great, thank you!

EDIT: Hey, today i had to reinstall nvidia again... doesnt look like the unlucky random error....

Last edited by mienensuchkind (2008-03-13 14:07:07)