From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from <gentoo-user+bounces-93983-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@lists.gentoo.org>) id 1LvgKI-0004Cy-0G for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 19 Apr 2009 23:21:30 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3B1EBE05AC; Sun, 19 Apr 2009 23:21:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f165.google.com (mail-ew0-f165.google.com [209.85.219.165]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECAC9E05AC for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Sun, 19 Apr 2009 23:21:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy9 with SMTP id 9so737351ewy.34 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Sun, 19 Apr 2009 16:21:27 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=X6t7XBc6JC4kjjrtGunVDMwnI1fwl2JmZuFuVpdi4t0=; b=alJjdmnue4qPmRav5sVWBTMiOsgAtWx7cJYuiBTMrWFgggsNGU7bkoLbnafgWRzHww rWDcKubn7DJfpcsePZGussNZ4sq6tC1lbAk5tHF3sWMl7P7/gnCd5FFJgrMihSNONNeW Iq67oTC8C1qlrFtbWGivmvD/fES1d2hEj/8gY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :message-id; b=sKaixZsDixaFkONq+cOdWbR0cGuiP+USuCqYB2SIXrTM4wLl9QakeBjNZ8iWi22RlV SZEy3bBST8NW4gltMOhjOxVenT7ks6/LZaj+YMS3wcCTOG7QF7x8klB2eOtvhsmUuuqM 4VfIFmPgbC8KnIGPlg0i5Rrz6Jvzgos56AdBc= Received: by 10.210.109.10 with SMTP id h10mr3063658ebc.45.1240183287400; Sun, 19 Apr 2009 16:21:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-210-140-95-rrdg-esr-2.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.210.140.95]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 23sm848257eya.51.2009.04.19.16.21.25 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 19 Apr 2009 16:21:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] corrupted start-up services (and file-system) Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 01:19:48 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.2 (Linux/2.6.29-gentoo; KDE/4.2.2; x86_64; ; ) References: <68b1e2610904191603o2f18b1cl79db00023f480a09@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <68b1e2610904191603o2f18b1cl79db00023f480a09@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@lists.gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200904200119.48736.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 1ca9a8a5-1959-4438-85b7-400363b88632 X-Archives-Hash: a3f4ea7568546df16d83c254e5e4a99a On Monday 20 April 2009 01:03:59 Liviu Andronic wrote: > Hello all, > I have a (nasty) issue with the system start-up, and probably with > corrupted file-system. On start-up, I get several error messages (see > below). I suspect I started having these messages after Gentoo crashed > once, but I couldn't recall the actual circumstances. > The problem is that, for example, MPD will not remember it's last > state before shutdown, and will be unable to recover the it's last > state. I have no idea where to start correcting the issue; any ideas > welcome. > Thanks, > Liviu > > Start-up messags: > ln: accessing `/var/lib/init.d/started/rmnologin': Permission denied That's a very unusual location for init scripts. Did you put them there, instead of in the more usual /etc/init.d/? {snip} > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 2009-04-19 17:32 keymaps -> /etc/init.d/keymaps > ?????????? ? ? ? ? ? laptop_mode This is almost certainly disk corruption. Boot from a CD and do an fsck on all disk volumes -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com