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From: Alex Schuster <wonko@wonkology.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] corrupted start-up services (and file-system)
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:36:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200904201036.34570.wonko@wonkology.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200904200119.48736.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>

Alan McKinnon writes:

> On Monday 20 April 2009 01:03:59 Liviu Andronic wrote:

> > 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/?

That's okay, this directory has symlinks to all real init scripts 
in /etc/init.d that have already started. There's 
also /var/lib/init.d/{failed,starting,stopping} and more.

> {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

And maybe do a backup first, in case fsck messes up things worse than 
before.

	Wonko



  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-04-20  8:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-19 23:03 [gentoo-user] corrupted start-up services (and file-system) Liviu Andronic
2009-04-19 23:19 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-04-20  4:35   ` Stroller
2009-04-20  5:23     ` Dale
2009-04-20  7:51   ` Sebastian Günther
2009-04-20  8:36   ` Alex Schuster [this message]
2009-04-20  9:50     ` Liviu Andronic

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