"Justin F. Kuo" wrote: > I ran that command as: > > fsck /usr You didn't unmout the filesystem before? BAD idea! File writes could have been in disk cache, thus detroying more files. Always unmount (or, if you absolutely have to mount it, like /, mount it read-only) the filesystem before running fsck! > and saw numerous messages silimar to these: > > /usr contains a file syste with error, check forced. > Pass1: Checking inodes, block sizes > Pass2: Checking directory structures > Missing ".." in inode 2260993 > Fin<y>? yes So your filesystem was severely damaged. Now you need to find the reason. Since for now no more errors show up, things like loose or oxidated cable connectors or damaged IDE or SCSI controllers are not very likely. So look in /var/log/messages for anything unusual at the beginning of the problems (did you power off the computer without shutting down Linux before? Power outage?) and run the command badblocks which looks for bad blocks on your drive. If it reports much bad blocks, you are likely experiencing harddisk degradation. The best you can do then is to make a backup of all your data and get a new harddisk (reclaim the harddisk if it's still under warranty!). When bad blocks show up they usually increase in number rather fast, and you will more and more data. If there are no (or a lot less than I/O errors were in your initial ls command) bad blocks, the harddisk might be healthy, but keep an eye on it (and fsck the other partitions on that drive after unmounting them). To reinstall the missing programs, verify your RPMs like suggested by Michael Schwendt, or, probably easier, make a backup of your data and simply reinstall. And, of course, make regular backus of your data. ;-)) Data loss always happens shortly before you wanted to do a backup... Best regards, Martin Stricker -- Homepage: http://www.martin-stricker.de/ Linux Migration Project: http://www.linux-migration.org/ Red Hat Linux 7.3 for low memory: http://www.rule-project.org/ Registered Linux user #210635: http://counter.li.org/ -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
