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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