Re: How to recover from corrupted memory

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 2010-03-17 04:33, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Wed,17.Mar.10, 20:25:27, hce wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 11:51 PM, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
> >
> > > Paste the *exact* command with the *exact* output (preferably also with an
> > > "ls -aFl" listing of the directory).  If it's too large or wide for email,
> > > throw it onto a website and give us the link.
> > ~/wxGTK-2.8.10/samples/config$ ls -aFl
> > total 8
> > drwxr-xr-x     2 jupiter     jupiter           4096 2010-03-14 16:28 ./
> > drwxr-xr-x     5  jupiter    jupiter           4096 2010-03-14 16:28 ../
> > dr-s-w---T 24576 2594201913 1635839568 1637221952 1970-01-01 10:00 config.bkl/
> > ?--Sr-s--T 25018 3449839616 1637218816          0 2021-12-06 15:48 conftest.rc
> > ?--------- 24981 root            53408        306 1970-01-01 10:00 makefile.vc
> >
> > ~/wxGTK-2.8.10/samples/config$ rm -rf *
> > rm: cannot chdir from `.' to `config.bkl': Permission denied
> > rm: cannot remove `conftest.rc': Operation not permitted
> > rm: cannot remove `makefile.vc': Operation not permitted
>
> Did you try fsck-ing the filesystem?

Yeah.  Those user and group names just don't look right.

Depending on your set-up, you might need to boot into a live cd.

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