> 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?
2.0.31 seems to have appetite on a disk now and then. I saw it "tuning"
someone else's disk partition beyond recovery.
Ralf