Alan McKinnon writes: > On Monday 20 April 2009 01:03:59 Liviu Andronic wrote:
> > 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/? That's okay, this directory has symlinks to all real init scripts in /etc/init.d that have already started. There's also /var/lib/init.d/{failed,starting,stopping} and more. > {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 And maybe do a backup first, in case fsck messes up things worse than before. Wonko