Hello, I'm running debian unstable with a 2.6-test9 kernel using an ext2 root filesystem.
It's been running fine for a while now. However, the other day when I booted it, it hung when it was starting sendmail (i don't know if that has anything to do with the problem however). When I rebooted, it did a forced fsck because the filesystem wasn't cleanly unmounted. It fixed a number of errors with inodes of the wrong size, and cleared a couple of files as having deleted/unused inodes which it cleared. It was all done automatically, and when the check had finished, and it continued to boot, it gave all of these "Input/Output errors". A specific example is that whenever anything attempts to access /etc/mtab it gives an I/O error. This stops the machine from booting, and it is unusable. I booted into single-user mode to try a different fsck, but I was unable to remount the root filesystem read-only because mount failed with an input output error on /etc/mtab, again... Any idea what caused this? Is the filesystem simply corrupt? Is there anyway to fix it? Thanks, Beren. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
