ext2 errors with 2.0.31

toreo-mlist@tihlde.hist.no
06 Nov 1997 13:54:46 +0100

I'm getting errors with directories that turn into files all of a
sudden. It happened with my /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc so I
couldn't start X this morning, and today I compiled and installed
XEmacs, which make .../etc/toolbar/ into a file consisting of SGML.

I tried rm -rf /usr/local/lib/xemacs-20.3/ which had the offending
toolbar "file", and now the process eats all of my CPU, refusing to
die.

Running dmesg tells me:
EXT2-fs warning (device 03:04): ext2_free_blocks: bit already cleared for block 508248
EXT2-fs warning (device 03:04): ext2_free_blocks: bit already cleared for block 508260
EXT2-fs warning (device 03:04): empty_dir: bad directory (dir #42990) - no `.' or `..'

I never had problems with 2.0.31 (or any other kernel) until
recently[1]. What could this be? Hardware failure?

-Toreo

[1] At least not that I have noticed.

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