RE: How Bad Is This...?


How Bad Is This...?
\ Bob Young (16 Apr 2008)
. \ Sylvain Chouleur (16 Apr 2008)
. \ Alan McKinnon (16 Apr 2008)
. . \ Volker Armin Hemmann (16 Apr 2008)
. \ Volker Armin Hemmann (16 Apr 2008)
. . \ Bob Young (23 Apr 2008)
. \ Florian Philipp (16 Apr 2008)

7 msg	scp escape characters
5 msg	Gentoo Universal PPC ISO size?
1 msg	emerge -avk sun-jdk-1.5.0.10.tbz2
3 msg	Daft colours in knode
8 msg	ssh-add: Could not open a connection to your au...
7 msg	Crippled system
1 msg	ASUS F3SC : Kernel Configuration
3 msg	Bluetooth-Hotspot
10 msg	ck8s ethernet support in 2.6.23-r6 kernel
2 msg	Re: Recommend a program for line art and text
3 msg	circular blocking - howto escape ?
1 msg	growisofs fails as user, sometimes works as root!
3 msg	SurroundSound, Pulseaudio & CPU Usage
2 msg	wifi
2 msg	[OT] Strange crash while setting up new box
1 msg	Thrustmaster RCS
3 msg	vmware-server-console: version `GCC_3.4' not found
1 msg	Salasaga
7 msg	portage conflict

Subject:	RE: How Bad Is This...?
Group:	Gentoo-user
From:	Bob Young
Date:	23 Apr 2008

-----Original Message-----
From: Volker Armin Hemmann [mailto:volker.armin.hemmann]
Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 8:22 AM
To: gentoo-user
Cc: Bob Young
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How Bad Is This...?

>On Mittwoch, 16. April 2008, Bob Young wrote:
>> I'm in the process of installing a new box, last night before going to
>> bed I started installing xorg server. This morning, I found the 82nd
>> build(out of 162) had failed with the following error:
>>

[snip]

>the best alternative is to check what went wrong, but since Seagates are
>known to die in the first couple of days - or almost never, this gentleman
>here would bet on a defective harddisk.
>
>Btw, you might want to read up on 'bathtub curve'. Stuff breaks early, or
>late.

Just wanted to let you know, it appears you were right, it was the HD itself
that was bad. I substituted in the other brand new Seagate, and reinstalled.

Luckily I was able to read all config files from the semi-bad drive. At this
point I'm finished installing xorg-server, and have begun installing KDE.

P.S. Next time I'll post the output of dmesg...<g>

Thanks for responding
Bob Young
San Jose, CA.

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