On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 03:10:51PM +0000, Elmer E. Dow wrote: > Greetings: > > I'm running an IBM R40 laptop with three systems: Debian Sarge (which I > use primarily), Knopix 3.4 hd install, and WinXP. This morning I booted > to Knoppix to look at some bookmarks on that system. I forgot to unplug > the PCMCIA card modem, so it stopped there at boot. I unplugged it and > completed the boot, doing an fsck because it hadn't been done in a while. > > Then when I attempted later to reboot to Debian, I got the following > message: > > fsck 1.35 (28-Feb-2004) > / contains a file system with errors, checked forced. > /: > Inodes that were part of a corrupted orphan linked list found. > > /: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY: RUN fsck MANUALLY. > (i.e., without -a or -p options) > > fsck failed. Please repair manually and reboot. Please note that root > file system is currently mounted read-only. To remount it to read-write: > # mount -n -o remount ,rw /
just to put it out there: there may be a version problem between you're versions of fsck and the other e2fs programs. Get yourself the most recent fsck you can and check that disk out offline before you get to freaked. I'm not advocating you abandon caution, just a thought on the source of the problem. A
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