Hello, I have a problem which I'm not able to figure out. We have 2 email servers. Both these have /var/spool/mail on an NFS server. One of the email servers has RAID-1 storage and this has a problem. As one of the hard disks of the RAID-1 failed, our network administrator replaced a hard disk last week. He left the company at the end of the week. This week, while trying to add a new user to the email server the "adduser" command failed.The "chattr" command in the adduser script probably failed as the permissions on the file it tried to change (/etc/passwd as far as I remember) did have read-write permissions (verified by ls -l). On rebooting this server, I get Inconsistency detected by ld.so:../sysdeps/i386/dl-machine.h:385:_dl_relocate_object:Assertion '((reloc->r_info) & 0ff)=8' failed. Kernel Panic: Attempted to kill init. Any suggestions ? (for a novice) Email service hasn't suffered as the other email server is currently being used, but would like to get the failed server up and running. Thanks, Tony - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html