[NBLUG/talk] debian apt-get crash

[Mark Street]

Very interesting, a forced filesystem check cleared it.  Did it exit with an 
error code saying that the file was illegal or were there other errors?

On Friday 12 March 2004 03:55 pm, E Frank Ball wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 03:42:34PM -0800, Mark Street wrote:
> }
> } Hmmm, character device file... strange.  Restricted perms.
> }
> } http://www.die.net/doc/linux/lkmpg/node14.html
>
> Hmm, I turned on gpm and cut and paste in X is dead (mouse
> button 2 is dead).
>
>
> } chmod 775 htmldocs
> } mv htmldocs htmldocsBOGUS
>
>
> Nope, both mv and chmod were not allowed.
>
> The fix was:  fsck.ext2 -f -c -C 0 -v /dev/sda1
>
> That cleared the "illegal character device".

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