Strange and mysterious Linux crash

George Toft plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Thu, 11 Apr 2002 20:10:42 -0400


Matt Alexander wrote:
> 
> VMWare has to be run as root and it was running at the time.  AIM also

Why is that?

> runs as root, I believe.  The partition table is fine.  It's just that
> several important directories are now replaced with files.  And without
> /bin/init, I obviously can't boot this box unless I use a boot floppy/CD.
> ~M


I noticed I get filesystem corruption using reiserfs and I have a crash.
One more reboot and it is OK.

George