Apparently, though unproven, at 15:30 on Monday 01 November 2010, alex did opine thusly:
> > I suspect directory corruption in /home - is it a separate partition? > > > > I don't recall if you mentioned this or not, do you get the same result > > if you run "ls $HOME" as root? root's home dir is not on /home so that > > will vbe a valuable clue. If that command works, do an fsck on /home > > Could also some problem with the inodes, could't? Yes. Doesn't matter if it's inodes or blocks, it's still corruption. inodes are just blocks that the fs drivers understands to treat specially. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
