unexpected softupdate inconsistency

[Stephen Bader]

Just for my information if I ever run into this in the future, what do you
mean by 'use vim on the dir entry'?

-Steve

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On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Michael Nottebrock wrote:

> On Wednesday 10 March 2004 11:23, Manfred Lotz wrote:
> > On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 19:21:30 +1000
> >
> > Mark Sergeant <msergeant at snsonline.net> wrote:
> > > In situations like this it can be useful to use vim on the dir entry
> > > that is affected and remove the invalid filenames. This has worked for
> > > me before.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > Mark
> >
> > Thanks for the reply. Have to admit that it would have never occured to
> > me to do this. Good idea.
> >
> > Did you experience this often? I'm worried. Never had something like
> > this before.
>
> You should watch that system - filesystems going bad out of the blue are
> usually a warning sign of failing hardware (though not necessarily the hdd
> itself, might be power issues, bad memory, etc.).
>
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