Every time I see some kind of I/O error it was never a good sign. If the actual /etc/mtab is gone, that's a bad sign. But then it might be as simple as doing an fsck on the filesystem. Or, check the mount man page: "it is possible to replace /etc/mtab by a symbolic link to /proc/mounts..." cheers. ~af <div>On 5/23/06, Trevor TeC Christian < <a href="mailto:trevor@bouyon.dalive.com">trevor@bouyon.dalive.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Trevor "TeC" Christian wrote: > Good day: > > I just used yum to upgrade my kernel on my FC3 box and on shutdown and > reboot, began getting errors indicating and input/output error with > /etc/mtab. > > When entering the directory this file from ls looks like a link that's > lost it's link - if you get what I'm saying... I flashes and is points > to nothing. The file size, owner and permission sections of the ls -l > output all appear as question marks. > > What happened? How should this be fixed? > > Thanx Looking back at root mail, it seems this error may have been showing up from early Sunday morning - after a power failure, shutdown and reboot - during a cron attempt to update the slocate database. -- *Trevor "TeC" Christian* /TeC Productions Studios/ Cell #: (767) 225 4472 IM MSN: <a href="mailto:trevorc98@hotmail.com">trevorc98@hotmail.com</a> / <a href="mailto:trevor@bouyon.dalive.com"> trevor@bouyon.dalive.com</a> YM : <a href="mailto:trevorc01@yahoo.com">trevorc01@yahoo.com</a> AIM: DoubleOTeC GoogleTalk: <a href="mailto:doubleOTeC@gmail.com">doubleOTeC@gmail.com</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Home Page <<a href="http://trevor.bouyon.dalive.com/">http://trevor.bouyon.dalive.com/</a>> Curriculum Vitae <<a href="http://bouyon.dalive.com/cv/">http://bouyon.dalive.com/cv/</a>> Dalive Market < <a href="http://www.dalivemarket.com/">http://www.dalivemarket.com/</a>> -- fedora-list mailing list <a href="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com">fedora-list@redhat.com</a> To unsubscribe: <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list"> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list</a> </blockquote></div>