help !! corrupt file system

[Frank Ramsay]

On Sunday 06 January 2002 10:26 pm, Scott Lanning wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Jan 2002, Frank Ramsay wrote:
> >my /usr/bin filesystem has been corrupted !!!
> >
> >As near as I can tell it happened earlier today.  I had just logged off
> > and when the kde login screen started to come up the system froze then
> > rebooted. It went through the normal system check but when it came back
> > up it used the gnome login screen instead, I also noticed a few other
> > things like kmail would no longer launch URL's.  So I did some digging
> > and found a bunch of corrupt files in /usr/bin.
>
> I had something similar happen when I used the buggy kernel recently
> (2.4.14 or so I think). Nasty thing. I would `ls` a directory and
> certain files would give an error like that, "I/O error" or something.
> Did you use that kernel? I think I fixed it with manually running
> e2fsck in that case.

I'm running 2.4.7-10.  It's what shipped with Redhat 7.2.
I'll try running e2fsck on the partition.

				-fjr