Re: Serious problem, something corrupt, help!

["Monique Y. Herman" <spam@bounceswoosh.org>]

On Mon, 03 Nov 2003 at 16:15 GMT, Anthony R. J. Ball penned:
> 
>   I meant to say that other commands... like mutt, ls, locate...  are
>   all doing fine...
> 
>   How can I run fsck on a running system? especially if mount is
>   segfaulting... is it even possible.
> 
>   I think that if I reboot, I will be dead in the water.
> 

You can't run fsck on a running system.  If only some apps are
misbehaving, my WAG* is that a library is somehow borked, but if you
didn't upgrade anything just before this happened ... 

I just don't know =/

Backing up important docs still isn't a bad idea.

* Wild Ass Guess

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