[MPlayer-users] Re: Mplayer Skin folder -- Where and Why?

[Tobias Diedrich]

The Wanderer wrote:

> I've had to do it twice that I recall... I forget what caused the
> problem the second time, but the first was because I had a bad RAM chip
> and corrupted data from memory was being written back to the drive -
> eventually it wouldn't boot anymore; I had to reformat my root partition
> and reinstall, using a different chip. (Wow - ellipsis, comma, hyphen
> and semicolon pauses, all in the same sentence!)

Heh.  Once the root block the ext2 fs of my server got corrupted
including the backup root blocks and I had to get it working again
using a hex editor.  :-)
After the fsck not too much was lost AFAIR.

> But since he only mentioned reinstalling MPlayer from scratch, not his
> complete Linux setup, I'm not sure this is entirely relevant.

Ok, I should have wrote - wrote or written? AFAIR it's write wrote
wrote, isn't it? - Linux or any single Package.
(Well I don't count reinstalling the deb while retaining configuration
files, which I had to do because of some lost libs after a disk
corruption and following fsck)

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Tobias						PGP: http://9ac7e0bc.2ya.com
Be vigilant!