Message in syslog of bad dir - mangled entry

[James C. Hilley]

I have a HP T Frame running 10.20. In my syslog I am showing the following message.

/stand: bad dir ino 3 at offset ####: mangled entry

The directory at inode 3 is /stand/lost+found. The lost+found directory is empty. I cannot find anything about this in the knowledge databases. Has anyone ever run across this? And if so can you please let me know what could have caused it and how to fix the problem. Thanks for your help. James

[James R. Ferguson · Accepted solution]

James:

I found three documents for you. Two are very old (ca. 1994) and apply to very early releases of 10.x -- #1653101584 & #1653107946. In part they suggest not to run "fsck -n" on mounted filesystems.

The third document applies to 11.0 (#1653277301) and again deals with fsck on HFS file systems.

...JRF...

[James R. Ferguson]

James:

Ah, too fast on the submit button. I meant to add that you probably should have, if you don't, a relatively current set of LVM cumulative patches.

...JRF...

[RikTytgat]

Hi,

To solve your problem, remove the 'lost+found' directory, and recreate it using the command mklost+found(1m).

Hope this helps,
Rik.

[James C. Hilley]

Thank you for your help. My problem is solved.