Strange and mysterious Linux crash

[KevinO]

Does VMWare have to be run as root ? Was it at the time ? Was AOL I.M. running 
as root then ?

(I'm taking stabs in the dark and being cynical as usual ...)

Are you indicating that your partition table is now messed up on this HD ?

Matt Alexander wrote:
> So my Linux box just locked up.  I was running VMWare, AIM, Konq, KMail,
> and quite a few Konsole sessions.  I couldn't kill X.  So, I grudgingly
> rebooted, but I got a message about a kernel panic and not finding init.
> Odd.  So I booted from a floppy and mounted my filesystem.  Here's what I
> found:
> 
> /bin, /lib, and /opt are no longer directories.  /bin is now a copy of my
> passwd file.  /lib is now a copy of my group file.  And /opt is another
> copy of my passwd file.  /usr/local/lib is now a copy of something that
> looks like a sound config file, with entries like "synth:64:64:R" and
> "pcm:64:64:P".
> 
> SoooooooOOOOooOOOOoOOOoo...  what the heck happened?  Any guesses?
> Thanks,
> ~M
> 
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