On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, Matthew Galgoci wrote:
> > > "File 'TkStep-8.0.4-2.i386.rpm' exists but can not be
> > > stat-ed: No such file or directory" I get similar results
> > > with an "ls Tk<tab> <enter>"
> >
> > Sounds like file system corruption. I first thought of the files being
> > immutable, but since you say you can delete them this probably isn't the case.
> > Reboot with "shutdown -F -r 0" to force a filesystem check.
>
> I have to agre with Leonard. It sounds like you might be looking at some
> filesystem corruption. Perhaps you have a flakey drive controller or are
> just losing a hard drive. Here is what to do:
>
> at the lilo prompt, type linux init=/bin/bash, followed by a return. When
> the system drops you to a shell, exec another /bin/bash to get signal
> handling correct. Then one by one, do an /sbin/fsck -f /dev/xxxx for all of
> your filesystem partitions, answering yes to all of the questions.
>
I did as suggested by Leonard... and yes, there's a little
bit of corruption and as soon as my damn 20 gig IDE gets
in, I'm gonna move a buncha stuff over to it, reformat some
partitions and move it back. :-)
John
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