After doing a shutdown -rF now and watching the fsck run, there were no complaints about the file system logged to the console. Is there perhaps a log file that I need to look at to rule out the file system itself.
I ran the rpm -Va and the results is below. As of yet I don't understand the first column for most of the packages. >> > I suspect a file system error someplace, but I don't know how to have >> redhat compare say the libraries and the permissions from the >> installation/distro cd against what I have on the hard drive to find >> differences. >> I would suggggest 2 steps >> 1. fsck all partitions >> 2. rpm -Va >> This checks for permissions, etc. S.5....T /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0/CPAN.pm S.5....T /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0/CPAN/FirstTime.pm S.5....T /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0/CPAN/Nox.pm ..5....T /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0/File/Spec.pm S.5....T /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0/File/Spec/Functions.pm S.5....T /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0/File/Spec/Mac.pm S.5....T /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0/File/Spec/OS2.pm S.5....T /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0/File/Spec/Unix.pm S.5....T /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0/File/Spec/VMS.pm S.5....T /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0/File/Spec/Win32.pm S.5....T /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0/Test/Harness.pm S.5....T c /etc/crontab S.5....T c /etc/syslog.conf .M...... /dev/dri missing 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c /etc/sysconfig/samba .......T /usr/bin/mksmbpasswd.sh S.5....T d /usr/share/man/man1/smbstatus.1.gz S.5....T d /usr/share/man/man5/smbpasswd.5.gz S.5....T d /usr/share/man/man7/samba.7.gz S.5....T d /usr/share/man/man8/nmbd.8.gz S.5....T d /usr/share/man/man8/smbd.8.gz S.5....T c /etc/openldap/slapd.conf - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs