Hi all... I'm running a full Potato system (2.2.9 kernel). Tonight, for the first time, I got an error I've never seen before in the 4 years I've been running Linux full-time. I'm hoping this is bug in Potato and not something more serious with my system.
The error popped up when Debian was doing it's nightly housekeeping in /etc/cron.daily ... EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,69)): ext2_readdir: directory #4148 contains a hole at offset 1024 EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,69)): ext2_readdir: directory #4148 contains a hole at offset 2048 EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,69)): ext2_readdir: directory #4148 contains a hole at offset 3072 EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,69)): ext2_readdir: directory #4148 contains a hole at offset 4096 EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,69)): ext2_readdir: directory #4148 contains a hole at offset 5120 EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,69)): ext2_readdir: directory #4148 contains a hole at offset 6144 EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,69)): ext2_readdir: directory #4148 contains a hole at offset 7168 EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,69)): ext2_readdir: directory #4148 contains a hole at offset 8192 3,69 is the /dev/hdb5 partition on my hard drive which is mounted on /usr. I presumed the directory #4148 referred to an inode. So I did an 'ls -lRi |less' to see if I could figure out where the problem was. I tracked it down to the directory /usr/share/texmf/omega/plain/config. I confirmed it when I tried to 'ls' on the directory and got the same error as above. Is this a bug in Potato TeX package or a problem with my system? How do I fix it? Is it safe to rmdir that directory and recreate it? TIA for the help. bob -- bob billson email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ham: kc2wz (\ /) {|||8- beekeeper ...3 years -8|||} Linux! Because there is (/ 60,000 head of livestock \) no place like $HOME. "CIA terrorist NSA bomb spy KGB drugs nuclear agent war GCHQ... Hi Echelon!"