Every time I see some kind of I/O error it was never a good sign. <br>If the actual /etc/mtab is gone, that's a bad sign. But then it might be as simple<br>as doing an fsck on the filesystem.<br><br>Or,<br><br>check the mount man page:
<br>"it is possible to replace /etc/mtab by a symbolic link to /proc/mounts..."<br><br>cheers.<br>~af<br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/23/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Trevor TeC Christian</b> <
<a href="mailto:trevor@bouyon.dalive.com">trevor@bouyon.dalive.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Trevor "TeC" Christian wrote:
<br>> Good day:<br>><br>> I just used yum to upgrade my kernel on my FC3 box and on shutdown and<br>> reboot, began getting errors indicating and input/output error with<br>> /etc/mtab.<br>><br>> When entering the directory this file from ls looks like a link that's
<br>> lost it's link - if you get what I'm saying... I flashes and is points<br>> to nothing. The file size, owner and permission sections of the ls -l<br>> output all appear as question marks.<br>><br>> What happened? How should this be fixed?
<br>><br>> Thanx<br>Looking back at root mail, it seems this error may have been showing up<br>from early Sunday morning - after a power failure, shutdown and reboot -<br>during a cron attempt to update the slocate database.
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