I installed fedora core6 recently and i used it 3 or 4 times without any trouble but after that it started giving me the foll. error message:EXT3-fs error(device dm-0):ext3_xattr_block_get:inode2506331:bad block 2851845 .Anyone know how to deal with this?

Hey,

Do other operating system boot ok on it?
What actually happens when booting into fedora - does it give you errors but boot into the desktop anyway or does it just give errors then fail to boot?

Chris.

yes,it gives errors and then fails to boot.After giving these errors it tells me enter root password and repair the system

What happens after you give the root password? Does a prompt come up that allows you to input commands?

If so it might worth while having a look at the system log to see if it gives you more info. try:

tail -f /var/log/syslog
(do Ctrl-c to get out of syslog when your done)

and

dmesg

see what they say and post it back here.

Chris.

If it is asking you to run fsck manually then I think you should just do that:

fsck

It will repair the filesystem. Enter 'y' at all the prompts.

you're disk could have bad sectors/be broke

I tried yhe tail-f command but it seems that it is not working and then i tried fsck manually but even after 4-5 hours it is just not coming to an end.Should i run till it stops or is their any other alternative ?

It would be a good idea to use the hard disk inbuilt software to see if anythings wrong. If you can get into linux try, as root:

smartctl -a /dev/hda

if the command isn't recognised it means that the program smartmontools isn't installed, if you can install things look for it on yum or you could try a livecd such as linux or if you can get into windows a program called speedfan can read the hard disks smart output.

If smartmontools is install then it will output a health report about the hard disk and then you can run scans to check all the sectors.

Oh and are you running tail -f as root?
Hope that helps

Chris

I think that the command was recognised because i got the following response:
Device model:HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-H10W
Serial No :xxxxxxxxxx
Firmware:JL10
ATA version is :5
ATA stand is :Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated
SMART support is unavailable-Packet interface devices(this device :CD/DVD) don't support ATA SMART

It looks like your trying to run smart on your dvd drive!! Are you entering:

smartctl -a /dev/hda

? if so thats strange because your dvd drive has been assigned to /dev/hda.

Run as root:

df -h

Your'll get a print out of the partitions on your hard disk, like this:

/dev/hda3 9.2G 92M 8.7G 2% /
/dev/hda6 12G 6.2G 4.3G 59% /home
/dev/hda5 8.8G 2.8G 5.5G 34% /usr

As you can see the hard disk is assigned /dev/hda and the different partitions are off that. So run

smartctl -a /dev/xyz

But change xyz to whatever the main partition is called in the output from df.

Hope that makes sense

Chris.