Problems following a non-gracefull shutdown

Jeff Vian jvian10 at charter.net
Tue Feb 7 01:07:46 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 15:34 -0800, Roy Erickson wrote:
> Hi all:
> 
> Last week we had a power outage. My FC4 machine was eating up the  
> battery reserves of our network switch which was needed while the  
> rest of the shop was executing graceful shutdowns, so I literally  
> flipped the switch on it.
> 
> After starting it up, after power was restored, I noticed that it had  
> "(none)" for it's hostname, down in the lower right hand corner where  
> it real hostname was before.
> 
> I logged in, got a warning that GNOME would not work correctly w/o an  
> IP#,  and opened a terminal shell.
> When I did an 'ls' I got  Segmentation Fault
> 
> OhOh
> 
> Any way to clean up form this?
> 

Try an fsck from a rescue mode boot.

> Roy
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