<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">I got the bug in my Thunderbird email the other day. Today, I decided > to un-install Thunderbird and re-install it using 'Yum Extender' > > Bad move. Yum Extender froze while doing this. After letting it sit > for a half hour, I did a force quit on it. > > Afterwards I tried loading Synaptic to do the same thing. It would > not start. > > I logged out as a user, intending to log back in as root. I got a > small red screen approximate 800x600 pixels in size, and I get a > message that it can not load my graphical desktop. I had the line > commands only, and most of those are cut off by the outer blue > screen. > > I rebooted. > > I got the message that my file system was corrupted and Selinux was > preventing repairs. It stated that it had disabled selinux. It needed > my root password. > > When I typed in the root password, I got this: > > :repairing volume 1: > > It is sitting there waiting for something, but I do not know what. If > I simply type in "yes", I see a bunch of odd characters appear on > that small red screen, then it goes blank. Nothing appears to be > happening with my hard drive. > > I can really use some help to recover some files here. </pre> <pre wrap="">---- at the :repairing volume 1: prompt... e2fsck -fy /dev/hda1 substitute freely for hda1 for other partitions or logical devices Craig</pre> </blockquote> fsck reports too many bad blocks. It attempts to copy them, but I think that it is simply running out of room. I have an 18 GB partition for Win XP and a 10 GB partition for FC4. There was about 2 GB free the last time I looked at the FC4 partition. I have a 2nd older laptop computer running FC3 which has not been updated recently. It works fine. I don't think that I'll update it all. I'm going to give up on FC4. It simply has too many problems... <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- Lloyd Hayes Email: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:lloyd545220-trucker@yahoo.com">lloyd545220-trucker@yahoo.com</a> URL: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://TalkingStaff.bravehost.com">http://TalkingStaff.bravehost.com</a> E-FAX Number: (208) 248-6590 Web Journal: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lloyd_hayes.bravejournal.com/">http://lloyd_hayes.bravejournal.com/</a> </pre> </body> </html>