intrepid and nvidia

[Karl Larsen]

David Fox wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 9:46 AM, Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:
>
>   
>>    Depending on what really happened when your computer lost all those
>> files, it might be better to just re-load Hardy on top of the broken
>> one. If you use this method you will not need to find the nVidia files.
>>     
>
> I had what looks like to be filesystem corruption on /. This new
> system seems to be less stable than it should be.
>   
    Did you do something to cause the corruption? Either way at this 
point I would back up any important things on your 4 months of using 
this system, and then I would put a new file system on the partition and 
note any problems. If no problems then reload Hardy and enjoy.

Karl


> I didn't choose to reinstall because that would entail more work than
> I was willing to do. Although I considered it, even considered moving
> back to Debian in the process. But i figured I'd stick with it.
>
> I got a package called debsums (upon advice of another list member)
> and ran a few debsums reports, grepped out the ones that were OK, and
> then systematically reinstalled the packages that didn't match.
>
>
>   
>> Karl
>>     
>
>   


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