[vox-tech] Corrupted root files

[Bill Broadley]

Carl Boettiger wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been having a series of problems with corrupted files owned by root.
> (I'm running the Ubuntu Gutsy by the way, normal i386 install) The first I
> noticed was an error whenever I ran apt-get update that turned out to be do
> to some perl-base *.pm configuration files were corrupted into binary mess.
> (thanks for your help earlier on this!)  Most recently my /etc/environment
> file became corrupted, this time with random ascii text inserted and the
> correct text missing.  In each of these cases obtaining good copies of the
> corrupted files and overwriting the bad ones fixed the problem at hand.  Now
> the last round of updates included a kernel upgrade from 2.6.20-16 to
> 2.6.22-14.  The new kernel failed to boot and I have to select the old
> kernel from grub just to be able to boot at all.  Not sure if these problems
> are related, but I'm worried.  I've had all this trouble with corrupted
> files and now this in the past month or so, which i've never had before.
> Any ideas what I should do?

Step #1 copy any important files off.
Step #2 look at smartctl and then do a short test of your drive
Step #3 run a long test

Certainly if you are overclocking... stop.  Sounds like you have some serious 
issue going on.


> 
> -Carl
> 
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