Chapter 21. Troubleshooting

1. Introduction
2. A Boot Disk
2.1. Using the Mandriva Linux CD Rescue Mode
3. Backup
3.1. Why Backup?
3.2. Preparing your System
3.3. What to Backup?
3.4. Where to Back Up?
3.5. When to Back Up?
3.6. Backup Example Using tar
4. Restore
4.1. Restore Example Using tar
4.2. Making a Recovery CD-ROM
5. Problems Arising at Boot Time
5.1. System Hanging During Boot
5.2. Filesystem Check on Boot Fails
5.3. X Doesn't Start
6. Bootloader Issues
6.1. Bootloader Reinstall
6.2. Backing Up and Restoring the MBR
7. Filesystem Issues
7.1. Repairing a Damaged Superblock
7.2. Recovering Deleted Files
8. Recovering from a System Freeze
9. Killing Misbehaving Apps
9.1. From the Console
9.2. Using Graphical Monitoring Tools
10. Miscellaneous
10.1. Legacy-Free Systems
10.2. nVidia and ATI 3D Graphics Cards
10.3. Winmodems
10.4. My Computer is “slow
11. Mandriva Linux's Specific Troubleshooting Tools
12. General Guidelines for Solving a Problem under Mandriva Linux
12.1. Search the Internet
12.2. Mailing Lists and Newsgroups Archives
12.3. Directly Contacting the Person in Charge
12.4. Mandriva Business Services
13. Final Thoughts

Abstract

This chapter guides you through some troubleshooting basics, that is: what to do when everything goes wrong or, better yet, what to do to be prepared if something goes wrong and then how to fix it.