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

[Alan McKinnon]

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

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