Hi all,
I've been trying to troubleshoot an ailing Kubuntu/Dapper 6.06 system and I seemed to have reached a dead end.
The system hangs shortly after booting, giving an error message that says "Can't find Inittab". By searching other forum threads, I found that I may be able to solve the problem by copying a new Inittab file from a Live Dapper CD into the one installed on my hard drive.
I've managed to get the hda1 mounted using the LiveCD, but I can't seem to copy -- or access in any way -- the etc/ directory on my hard install. I've tried "sudo-ing" to change file permissions, but I keep getting the following error:
Code:
chmod: cannot access 'etc/': Input/output error
Here's the results of an "ls -la" on the hard install. the "etc/" directory clearly has some screwy file permissions, but I'm at a loss as to how to fix at this point. Any recommendations? Or is it time for a fresh install? Many thanks in advance!
Code:
total 132
drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4096 2007-07-11 18:12 .
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 80 2007-09-08 16:33 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-03-28 23:35 bin
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2007-07-11 18:12 boot
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 2007-03-28 13:05 cdrom -> media/cdrom
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 8192 2007-07-11 18:10 dev
?--------- ? ? ? ? ? etc
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2007-03-28 13:11 home
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2007-05-11 02:43 .hplip.conf
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2006-08-05 23:55 initrd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 2007-03-28 13:05 initrd.img.old -> boot/initrd.img-2.6.15-26-386
drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 8192 2007-07-29 23:52 lib
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 49152 2007-03-28 13:04 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 2007-08-21 04:04 media
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2006-05-22 14:00 mnt
drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 2007-06-04 00:32 opt
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2006-05-22 14:00 proc
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 2007-08-20 01:44 root
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 8192 2007-07-30 02:40 sbin
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2006-08-05 23:55 srv
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2006-05-21 18:46 sys
drwxrwxrwt 10 root root 4096 2007-09-02 14:35 tmp
drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 2007-03-29 07:58 usr
drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4096 2006-08-05 23:55 var
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 2007-03-28 13:05 vmlinuz.old -> boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-26-386
