On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:56 PM, MHR <mhullrich at gmail.com> wrote: > I am running CentOS 5/2 (latest updates) with the GNOME DE on a 32-bit > machine (at work). > > I have k3b installed, and I was trying to copy a DVD earlier this > morning, but k3b said it couldn't read encrypted DVDs. > > So, I installed libdvdcss from rpmforge and restarted k3b. It hung > the system. I rebooted, and / had been damaged. After running e2fsck > from the repair prompt, I rebooted and a whole slew of errors > revolving around various /var directories that did not ecist occurred. > > I have been trying to repair /var, and so far with a fair modicum of > success, but I've hit an interesting wall - two, actually. > > 1) The gdm refuses to come up. It claims that "Server Authorization > directory (daemon/ServAuthDir) is set to /var/gdm, but this does not > exist...." > > However: > > # ll -d /var/gdm > drwxrwx--T 2 root gdm 4096 Dec 11 10:31 /var/gdm > # ll /var/gdm > total 8 > -rw-r----- 1 root root 45 Nov 26 10:47 :0.Xauth > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 63 Dec 11 09:14 :0.Xservers > > This is identical to my backup system (which is not surprising - I set > up the dir and copied the files from here - was that a bad idea?). > > 2) The following daemons fail to start: auditd, NFS statd, avahi and > HAL. I've tried to pin down why the avahi daemon won't start because > it keeps logging permissions errors trying to create the pid file > /var/run/avahi-daemon//pid, but the setup of /var /var/run and > /var/run/avahi-daemon are all identical to this (backup) machine. Any > suggestions? > > Or is there a better, more comprehensive repair facility available? > > BTW, OT: Does anyone know why this might have happened? I have all > this installed at home, no problems whatsoever (libdvdcss works > seamlessly with all my DVD tools, including k3b). > > Thanks! > > mhr > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > Was SELINUX in enforcing mode? Rebuilding directories and files that previously had mandatory labels seems like it would cause problems until labels were reapplied.