Hi,

Slackware 9.1 just crashed horribly due to a faulty videocard.

When booting up the system with a new card, I could finally get X to start,
but when I tried to go to a console with CTRL-ALT-F1 I noticed that the
console did appear on screen but was slow, had a underlinecursor blinking
in the lefthandcorner and didn't show what I type (although it sometimes
responds to commands). When checking the logs I found the line:
'linux' unknown terminal type.

After the fsck there were an awful lot of files in the lost+found so
something must have gone missing, but which package do I need to re-install
to get a working terminal?

Bart

I'd do a complete reinstall as there is probably no way of
knowing what got lost in the filesystem crash.

I recommend you choose reiserfs and use that instead of
(ext2 ?). This way you won't have to worry about crashes.
ext3 is also a very good journalling filesystem but is somewhat
slower in certain situations (fixed in 2.6.x I think).

/R

In niewsbericht:Pine.LNX.4.58.0401082351480.1929@balr og.comhem.se,
roger <roger.andersson16@comhem.se> schreef:
> I'd do a complete reinstall as there is probably no way of
> knowing what got lost in the filesystem crash.
>
> I recommend you choose reiserfs and use that instead of
> (ext2 ?). This way you won't have to worry about crashes.
> ext3 is also a very good journalling filesystem but is somewhat
> slower in certain situations (fixed in 2.6.x I think).
I am using ext3 but after inspecting the system closer I think you are
right: too much is missing, a complete reinstall is in order. It's a miracle
the system is booting ;-(

Grumble.

Bart

On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Bart van Dijck wrote:

> In niewsbericht:Pine.LNX.4.58.0401082351480.1929@balr og.comhem.se,
> roger <roger.andersson16@comhem.se> schreef:
> > I'd do a complete reinstall as there is probably no way of
> > knowing what got lost in the filesystem crash.
> >
> > I recommend you choose reiserfs and use that instead of
> > (ext2 ?). This way you won't have to worry about crashes.
> > ext3 is also a very good journalling filesystem but is somewhat
> > slower in certain situations (fixed in 2.6.x I think).
> I am using ext3 <snip>
I see. The faulty card probably caused random writes
and other nastiness.
I've actually had this happen to me once when I was
overclocking.
Not very fun...
/R