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Hi Sivasubramanian,

I'll attempt to respond to your mail, but looking at the problems
encountered and the mistakes that are happening, I believe you are better
off asking for a neighbouring person familiar with Solaris to physically
look into the system.


On 4/3/07, Sivasubramanian Muthusamy <shiva.madras at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> <snip>
> 4. I am not sure if the tar ball extract caused the problem or something
> else.
>

Be assured that the above is not the problem. You happened to be doing this
operation is accidental.

b) The email client inbuilt into the browser is can't be launched becuase
> the browser can't be launched. This is the client that contains over 8000
> gmail messages, I don't know how to locate the store folder.  Also stored in
> the evloution / local folder ? I don't think so.
>

It is not clear which mail client you have used. Since you mentioned Solaris
10 and version 1.7 of the browser, I assume it is mozilla that you are
using. The folder .mozilla under the home directory is where you need to
look. This folder has both the settings of the application as well as the
data(emails).


Typed ~/.mozilla in the Terminal  It said permission denied
>

This is not correct ! You cannot execute a directory.
~/.mozilla means the directory .mozilla under the home directory of the user
with which you have logged in.
Ex: cd ~ will take you to the home directory (~ means home directory).
I had asked you to run mv ~/.mozilla ~/.mozilla.bkp. This will rename the
directory .mozilla to .mozilla.bkp.
This is to ensure that the existing data in .mozilla is not lost when you
are trying to experiment with the email client.


Typed mv ~/.mozilla.bkp It said -mv insufficient arguments
>

This is incorrect. Please check my comment above.

Typed /usr/sfw/lib/mozilla  It said permission denied
>

This is the reason I suggested that you should ask someone familiar with
Solaris or Linux to have a look at the system.
The mistakes above are basic in nature. Diagnosing the problem and
recovering from it might not be easy in such a scenario if you are not
already reasonably familiar with the environment.


Ran fsck
>
> It ran phases 1 though 5.
> It said corrected bad CG summary ( I dont remember this part )
> Corrected Sumamary for CG 747
> File System may still be inconsistent
> 237862 files
> 7167038 used
> 232680951 free
> 246583 fragments
> 29054296 blocks
> 0.1% fragmentation
> File System ws modified
>

NO !!!
I had asked to run fsck -m and fsck -n.
I had mentioned fsck -n explicitly so that no change is done to the
filesystem. But the command above seems to have been run without any option.
In such a case, it would have prompted for salvaging whenever it encounters
a problem with the filesystem, if you answer "yes" only then it will modify
the file system. If the inode for which it  asked the question pointed to
the root partition, the system may have problems in booting after salvaging.
fsck -n means I say no for fsck to correct any filesystem errors it finds so
that the system remains intact. It just checks and reports errors.


File System is bad
> Please rerun fsck
> Reboot now
>

I did not reboot immediately, ran fsck - m
> /dev/dsj/c1d0s0 is currently mounted R/W
> /dev/dsk/c1d0s0: Unexpected inconsistency; Run fsck manually
>
> Ran fsck -n
> 23782 files
> 7167038 used
> 232680951 free
> 246583 fragments
> 29054296 blocks
> 0.1% fragmentation
>

Seems like you have run fsck with the suggested options after running it the
incorrect way :-(

I typed reboot and on reboot there were error messages pertaining to network
> and also this
> (mispelt) a**/mmt/su**pdx default failed. Repeated attempts failed.
> Transferred to maintanence.
> SVC.startd [7] failed to abandon contract 46. Permission denied.
>
> The system booted, the Java Desktop came up. It is then that I noticed
> that the inbox of the "email and calender" client also became corrupt wtih
> the error message "error while opening folder file ///evolution/local/ Inbox
> summary and folder mismatch, even after a Syn.
>

Is your mail client evolution or mozilla(thunderbird)? It is confusing.

This is the most important data in the system. I need to save this. If I
> have to renistall, is there a way of preseving the data, is there some kind
> of a "repair" or "install missing componets" option ?
>


List all directories including the hidden directories in the home folder (ls
-a).
You should be seeing the directory of your email client. .mozilla if it is
mozilla or Probably "evolution" or ".evolution" if it is evolution.
If you can access a network share on this machine. Copy the folder into the
share before doing any further operation.
If the data is important for you, getting a backup is most important for you
right now before attempting any "recovery procedure".

Venky had suggested that you should not use root user for normal usage. I
would like to add another point, "Be sure you are familiar with the commands
and options that you use for the commands when executing as root user". When
performed as root, the system allows the user to do just about anything
without giving any warnings.

Get a friend to look into the system. You may find it difficult to resolve
it using emails.

regards
Shiv
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