Help! I am running redhat 8. I came in this morning and found the machine (an IBM laptop) with the disk whirring and the screen blank. It wouldn't wake up, so I restarted it. The boot process detected that it was an abnormal restart and mentioned deleting 5 orphan subblocks. I didn;t do a full file system check at that point. The system came up apparently ok but...
1) Trying to run Mozilla web browser causes 'profile in use' select another profile (even though nothing else was running). 2) Double clicking on the gui drive icon brings up window but the window never gets filled with anything, if I kill it it comes back but gets no further. an ls from the command line seems fine. I shut down the machine abnormally again and selected the file check this time but it didn;t find anything. I rebooted normally but everything is as described (ie not working) It seems to me that maybe the disk checks at boot are only checking the boot partition (I have the default 3 for redhat, plus a read only windows drive). What now? I really want to get this back, is there an equivalent of the windows chkdsk, or something else, or whatever? Thanks for any help John
