More on HD
I tried a few more things to figure out what is going on with my hard drive. The first was to use the Gentoo LiveCD to run badblocks(8). That reported no issues, just like fsck.reiserfs did earlier. The next thing was to go to Western Digital and download a copy of their Data Lifeguard Diagnostic [...]
Bad Drive?
Was doing some work on Sussen when I discovered my filesystem had become mounted read-only. After taking a look at the logs, I’m starting to see lots of messages like this: ata2: status=0×51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } ata2: error=0×84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } I booted from a CD and did an fsck.reiserfs but it [...]
Parsing Issue
Having a minor issue with parsing the OVAL XML. I’m justing having problems coming up with a way to turn some of the XML into more useful objects. For example: <oexec datatype=’int’ operator=’equals’>1</oexec> Here I need to check the permission of a file, looking at the other execute bit. I need to create an int [...]