begin: Richard S. Crawford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> quote
> >
> >Strange things happened after that. My mouse became more or less
> >unresponsive (it would move across the screen and could click on things but
> >nothing would execute -- I couldn't even click the "log out" button when I
> >shut down). Now, when I boot the machine, I get the following error:
> >
> >/home contains a file system with errors, check forced.
> >/home:
> >Unattached inode 288672
> >
> >/home: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY
> > (i.e., without -a or -p options)
> >/u2: clean, 11/1376256 files, 43201/2749115 blocks
> >
> >[FAILED]
> >
> >*** An error occured during the file system check
> >*** Dropping you to a shell; the system will reboot
> >*** whne you leave the shell.
> >Give root password for maintenance.
> >(or type Control-D for normal startup):
> >
> >
> >This strikes me as kind of bad.
what you don't mention in the email is whether you've "taken care of this".
have you run fsck manually?
> >I'm going to go through all my normal channels: a brother-in-law who helped
> >me put this computer together in the first place, several discussion groups
> >and mailing lists, and the tons of documentation that are out there... but
> >am I right in thinking that I may have to reinstall Linux?
you need to move away from the Windows way of thinking. there is very little
that can happen to your linux machine that requires a re-install.
in case you haven't run fsck manually:
reboot the machine
log in as root
find out which partition /home is on by looking at /etc/fstab [1]
fuser -k -m /home
fsck /dev/hd[1]
next:
so your mouse becomes unresponsive every time you boot the machine?
even when you don't run vmware?
do a ps aux and look for a running process that might belong to vmware. kill
it. if your machine seems ok, then go to /etc/init.d/rcblah.d and rename the
symlink to the vmware startup script. it'll be named something like
S99vmware. rename it with a lowercase s: s99vmware.
you'll have your machine back.
to uninstall vmware, it's "rpm -e vmware"
at this point, you can try to reinstall vmware and see what happens.
pete
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