Corrupted files in my linux?

leo1981 · 04-15-2007, 09:25 AM

hi,
I had strange problems lately with ubuntu feisty beta.
I didn't do anything funny, and I use official repositories.
Two days ago, I received a login error:

Code:

/etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: Registering your session with wtmp and utmp
/etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: running: /usr/X11R6/bin/sessreg -a -w /var/log/wtmp -u /var/run/utmp -x "/var/lib/gdm/:0.Xservers" -h "" -l ":0" "leo"
Impossible to write wtmp

I edited Default making it reads wtmp.1 (the backup). Gnome started, but I notice this:

Code:

ls -s /var/log/wtmp
?r-sr----x 8202 1952674405 1920299877 1651076128 2034-07-26 17:06 /var/log/wtmp

Then I tried to upgrade my system, and I got this:

Code:

dpkg: failed to open diversions file. No device or address

I checked diversion files, I got this:

Code:

leo@leo:/var/lib/dpkg$ ls -l div*
br-xr-xrwt 26996 537554017 538995060   97, 109 2029-03-26 03:14 diversions
?--xr-S-wx  8300 537555567 538992995 538970745 2021-08-21 05:01 diversions-old

Is it normal? How can I fix that?
Thank you.

Leonardo

Matir · 04-16-2007, 12:56 AM

Those are very odd permissions and owners. What filesystem is it installed on? EXT3? I strong encourage you to run fsck on that drive... it's possible the data is corrupt.