FC4 File system corrupted. Help!

[lloyd545220-trucker at yahoo.com]

I got the bug in my Thunderbird email the other day. Today, I decided
to un-install Thunderbird and re-install it using 'Yum Extender'

Bad move. Yum Extender froze while doing this. After letting it sit
for a half hour, I did a force quit on it.

Afterwards I tried loading Synaptic to do the same thing. It would
not start.

I logged out as a user, intending to log back in as root. I got a
small red screen approximate 800x600 pixels in size, and I get a
message that it can not load my graphical desktop. I had the line
commands only, and most of those are cut off by the outer blue
screen.

I rebooted.

I got the message that my file system was corrupted and Selinux was
preventing repairs. It stated that it had disabled selinux. It needed
my root password.

When I typed in the root password, I got this:

:repairing volume 1:

It is sitting there waiting for something, but I do not know what. If
I simply type in "yes", I see a bunch of odd characters appear on
that small red screen, then it goes blank. Nothing appears to be
happening with my hard drive.

I can really use some help to recover some files here.

Lloyd



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