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After a long-winded filesystem check yesterday i could successful recover my slug. I was unsure if some important files were corrupted and moved to /lost+found. To ensure the itegrity of all packages from dpkg, I installed the tool called  «debsums» from the repositories. I execuded “debsums -sa” to see, which files dont match to the md5 sum delivered in every deb-package.  I asserted that no files (in which I didnt made consciously a change) were differing from the original md5 sum. Phew!

The other thing, my umts-modem, isnt actually working like it should. Its recognized correctly by the harware abstraction layer, but the network manager cant etablish a connection. I already found a solution by unload the driver and reload it manually (modprobe -r option && modprobe -a option). Afterwards it (somtimes) worked like it should, I try to create an automatic solution with an udev rule, but more on this later.

Hey dear followers.. My NSLU2 with Debian installed on it had a blackout some time ago and for example the /tmp directory was no more usable (Errormessage: “Stale NFS file handle”). First I tried to do a fsck on reboot, but I had no success, the check could not be done. The conclusion was that I plugged the external drive, where the corrupt filesystem is stored on, into a personal computer and made a fsck with it. I was astonished that the whole procedure took about 6 hours and many files are now located in the /lost+found directory, unfortunately i spotted some config files there aswell. I’m curious if its still working.. I will see.

The other thing I did today was reinstall my eeepc. All worked fine and I restored the most of my settings. Its alot faster now than before, all the obsolesce stuff isnt installed anymore. I couldnt test the UMTS-card yet, but I think it will work fine.