On Monday 20 April 2009 01:03:59 Liviu Andronic wrote: > Hello all, > I have a (nasty) issue with the system start-up, and probably with > corrupted file-system. On start-up, I get several error messages (see > below). I suspect I started having these messages after Gentoo crashed > once, but I couldn't recall the actual circumstances. > The problem is that, for example, MPD will not remember it's last > state before shutdown, and will be unable to recover the it's last > state. I have no idea where to start correcting the issue; any ideas > welcome. > Thanks, > Liviu > > Start-up messags: > ln: accessing `/var/lib/init.d/started/rmnologin': Permission denied
That's a very unusual location for init scripts. Did you put them there, instead of in the more usual /etc/init.d/? {snip} > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 2009-04-19 17:32 keymaps -> /etc/init.d/keymaps > ?????????? ? ? ? ? ? laptop_mode This is almost certainly disk corruption. Boot from a CD and do an fsck on all disk volumes -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com