Steve Holdoway wrote:
You've probably got some corruption on the root partition. To fix that, boot
off a CD and fsck. I'd also remove /etc/mtab ( the list of mounted partitions )
at the same time.
Well booting to a Knoppix CD and removing mtab with an fsck -f of all
filesystems doesn't seem to have helped. I'm even seeing strange things
in /proc/mounts now:
rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0
/dev/root / ext3 rw,data=ordered 0 0
/dev /dev tmpfs rw 0 0
/proc /proc proc rw 0 0
/sys /sys sysfs rw 0 0
none /selinux selinuxfs rw 0 0
/proc/bus/usb /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw 0 0
/dev/hda2 /games ext3 rw,data=ordered 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts rw 0 0
/dev/hdb1 /backup ext3 rw,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/hdb2 /localarchive ext3 rw,data=ordered 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
none /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc rw 0 0
sunrpc /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs rpc_pipefs rw 0 0
Perhaps another inspection in Knoppix might reveal some files being
written to a literal /proc mountpoint. Stay tuned :)
Greg
