System Recovery

[Bill McGonigle]

On Jul 15, 2008, at 11:01, John Abreau wrote:

> It sounds like the filesystem is thoroughly hosed. Based on the  
> symptoms
> you describe, my first guess would be that you mistakenly pointed  
> K3b at
> your hard drive instead of the DVD drive.

Bruce, were you running k3b as root?  We can save the scolding for  
later, but it would help to know what k3b could have conceivably  
done.  e.g. If you were running as a normal user k3b couldn't have  
written to your /var partition, under normal circumstances.

Also, dump your /etc/fstab up here to verify.

-Bill

-----
Bill McGonigle, Owner           Work: 603.448.4440
BFC Computing, LLC              Home: 603.448.1668
bill at bfccomputing.com		Cell: 603.252.2606
http://www.bfccomputing.com/    Page: 603.442.1833
Blog: http://blog.bfccomputing.com/
VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf