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File Vanished... eh?? Weird!

Hi All,

I've not seen this before, very odd... Any ideas?

Code:

ls -ali logs/

ls: cannot access logs/file.2010-09-01.log: No such file or directory

total 288

1230636 drwxr-xr-x  2 auser buser  4096 2010-09-10 09:48 .

1228801 drwxr-xr-x 12 auser buser  4096 2010-09-09 16:08 ..

1230638 -rw-r--r--  1 auser buser  7174 2010-08-04 14:26 file.2010-08-04.log

1230456 -?????????  ? ?        ?            ?                ? file.2010-09-01.log

1230464 -rw-r--r--  1 auser buser  10038 2010-09-09 17:01 file.2010-09-09.log

1230459 -rw-r--r--  1 auser buser  22590 2010-09-10 09:51 file.2010-09-10.log

Thanks for any help,
Regards,
M

Hi,

Looks like the file is corrupt or the underlying file-system might be having problems.

I'm not sure if your distro checks the file system every time it boots (probably not, it is done periodically). The following command forces a file-system check on the next (re)boot (as root user): touch /forcefsck

Reboot your machine.

If all went well your file-system will be checked and (hopefully) automatically repaired.

If the /forcefsck file is still present after you boot, remove it (as root): rm /forcefsck

Hope this helps.