help !! corrupt file system

[slanning at BUPHY.bu.edu (Scott Lanning)]

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.