On Wednesday 16 April 2008, Bob Young wrote: > I'm in the process of installing a new box, last night before going > to bed I started installing xorg server. This morning, I found the > 82nd build (out of 162) had failed with the following error:
<snip> > 36 -rwxr-xr-x 1 NormalUser Domain Admins 36364 Apr 19 2007 <snip> > Okay, so my question is how bad is it? It's very bad. It indicates file system corruption on the ReiserFS. In my experience, I have never seen this to be followed by a clean recovery. You can try reiser.fsck with --rebuild-tree (after suitably enough research and googling) and see what gives. Sorry for the bad news. > Is there anyway to shutdown cleanly? 'shutdown -h now' ? -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list