Re: help... X-Server crashed after update

[Steven Pritchard <steve@silug.org>]

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 10:30:10AM -0500, Robert Citek wrote:
> My guess is that you want a backup first.  There are a lot of red
> flags popping up: upgrade not working, files missing, odd behaviour.
> I've seen those signs before and they usually proceed the post asking
> "anyone know of a place that does data recovery and doesn't charge a
> fortune?"

On that note:

  smartctl -d ata -H -l error -l selftest /dev/sda

(Substitute "hda" or whatever as needed - here ^^^.)

That will hopefully tell you if the drive is actively failing.

Steve
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