[plug] Can't write to home directory input/output error

[russ]

 --- russ <russ at powerstech.com> wrote: 
> Well, something seems odd. As you both suggested, checking dmesg there's a
> whole stack of i/o errors:
> 
> "is_tree_node: node level 16438 does not match to the expected one 1
> vs-5150: search_by_key: invalid format found in block 8225. Fsck?
> vs-13070: reiserfs_read_inode2: i/o failure occurred trying to find stat data
> of [4 40 0x0 SD]"
> 
> I'll do an fsck now.

I used reiserfsck --check and it found problem on the /home partition.
reiserfsck --rebuild-tree fixed the problems and everything is working now.

Thanks for all the help!  Now I can play with suse 9.0.  :-)

> 
> But why would root have no problems? It's one drive but /home is on a
> different
> partition to / . Maybe it's just an error within the partition. But I can
> still
> log in as russ and read everything ok.
> 
> And I checked all the permissions, they look fine.
> 
>  --- Craig Ringer <craig at postnewspapers.com.au> wrote: > 
> > Any ideas or pointers? 
> > 
> > As James suggested, check your system logs for strange errors and fsck 
> > your filesystems. Additionally, though, I strongly suggest you use 
> > smartctl to query your drives and see if they report any bad sectors etc.
> > 
> > If you see messages like:
> > 
> > hda: dma transfer error: status=0x51 ( DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> > end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector 1231231
> > (that's not exact, but something _like_ that)
> > 
> > then you'll definitely want to check your hard disks, cables and/or 
> > connections.
> > 
> > Running SMART self-tests can occasionally be useful too, but the only 
> > drives I've found the self-tests really helpful on so far have been 
> > laptop disks.
> > 
> > Craig Ringer
> > 
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> Best Regards,
> Russ
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Best Regards,
Russ