Odd file problem

Kurt Wall kwall
Mon May 17 11:45:29 PDT 2004


On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 10:31:13PM -0500, David A. Bandel wrote:
> OK folks, this is weird:
> 
> elvalle:/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES# ls
> adduser.mo        diffutils.mo  lynx.mo       pppoeconf.mo  texinfo.mo
> aptitude.mo       dpkg.mo       make.mo       psmisc.mo    
> util-linux.mo
> attr.mo           findutils.mo  man-db.mo     sed.mo        whois.mo
> bison.mo          gettext.mo    mutt.mo       shadow.mo
> console-tools.mo  gnupg.mo      nano.mo       sharutils.mo
> coreutils.mo      grep.mo       net-tools.mo  tar.mo
> debconf.mo        libc.mo       opcodes.mo    tasksel.mo
> elvalle:/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES# ls -l
> ls: gettext.mo: Unknown error 990
> ls: nano.mo: Unknown error 990
> ls: whois.mo: Unknown error 990

[...]

> I have no clue what to make of this.

If this is on an XFS file system, it might indicate possible corruption
on the file system. Perhaps an xfs_check or xfs_repair is in order?

Kurt


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