Unexpected inconsistency

[Rob Brandt]

I've gotten this twice in the last month under different 
circumstances, and would also like to know what the issue is.

Circumstances: Running YDL 2.1 on a Beige G3 tower, 768 mb of RAM. 
This has appeared since I installed a new IBM branded 60 gb 
harddrive.  In bot instances, I came in to work in the morning with 
the system apparently frozen up, reminiscent of Macs under System 
7.5.  No web services were responsive, the screen was black, and 
could not be woken up.  After rebooting, I was required to run fsck 
manually on the two partitions contained on the new drive because of 
the "unexpected inconsistency".  It boots Mac OS off of an old 400mb 
drive, most of the Linux system files are on the original 4gb drive, 
and the /home and /var directories have there own partitions on the 
new IBM).  Running fsck fixes a whole bunch of things, then all seems 
to be well.

But the lockup is scary.  What's the deal?

Rob


>I am getting the error "Unexpected inconsistency, run FSCK manually" etc on
>startup of YDL 2.3 .
>
>Root password does not work when I am prompted to input it, so I can not try
>any of the methods suggested previously on this list (searched the archives
>and website) to get into single user mode and run fsck -y etc.
>
>Can anyone suggest how I can run FSCK manually in this case?
>
>john keegan
>
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