Description of problem: I just had a very severe crash of the operating system on my Dell Inspiron 1150 running FC3 with all the updates. I was logged into gnome running nothing in particular (firefox and a few terminals). I tried to run evolution and it said that it couldn't because it was a read only filesystem. I didn't catch on how bad the problem was and decided to just exit gnome. Upon exit, it couldn't start X, spit some strange characters on the screen and crashed. Upon reboot I was forced into manual fsck of root filesystem. The first error was something about a magic flag set, in case that is important. Hundreds more lost inodes and many files, including system files, files in my home directory and files I don't think I have ever even used, were lost. Eventually I was able to finish the fsck and reboot, but it is going to take forever to repair the damage to system files. The only thing in /var/log/messages that could have anything to do with this crash was: Dec 3 12:24:10 localhost kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device This is the last entry before successful reboot. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.9-1.681_FC3 How reproducible: hopefully not very...
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