Re: [gentoo-user] corrupted start-up services (and file-system)

[Alex Schuster]

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