[KLUG Members] Re: Laptop reiser corruption and fixing it

[Bryan J. Smith]

Bruce Smith wrote:
> Maybe it's a 2.4 kernel thing?

Maybe, although I'm running 2.2.19/20 on the Debian box.

>   rpm -V `rpm -qa`
> To see if I had a corrupt file somewhere, and "/initrd/"
> came up as missing.  Bingo!!!   :-)

Yeah, "rpm -V" saves me all the time.  E.g., Evolution was dorking
up, missing icons and the "File" on the menu.  Sure enough, "rpm -V"
reported an .xml resource file was changed.  Simple re-install of
the RPM worked.

-- Bryan

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