the ? is worrying. That means that fsck is a special file, and ls doesn't know what type of special file it is. fsck shouldn't be a special file, fsck should be a normal regular file. If thats the case then you've had some pretty nasty filesystem corruption. Normally I'd recommend running fsck to repair it but uh, that has issues :)
If you're running gentoo on this machine (you were asking about gentoo earlier right?) then you might want to "emerge e2fsprogs" again. This will require the filesystem to be mounted readwrite (mount -o remount,rw /) which might be a bit dangerous. If you have any important files on this machine I'd suggest copying them off first.
if you can't get emerge working, then you may have to tinker with debug2fs which is uh, painful.
It not my new machine [phews, lucky me]. The new box is still on the way :)) (as most shop open yesterday) and this is the old box that running ubuntu :). Anyway that mean, I have suffered a ultra-multi-deep-sh*t severe file-corruption :), that remind me, yesterday we had an black-out for 20mins, that made me away from that computer. Uhm... what I think I should do is re-install the box and in the mean time called Genesis to complain that they screwed up my box. However if I do the full install and I currently had 3 partition on that box: hdc1 - / (root) hdc6 - swap hdc7 - /home so my /home should be okay right if I leave it intact and use it as /home for my new installation ? How can I check my /home partition is not corrupted (lots of my music and movies in there...)? Luckily, my laptop didn't blow up either... otherwise genesis office might burn-down in the next couple hrs [cheeky]... p.s: I am sitting on gentoo laptop and write this email. -- Nigel Nguyen Email: nigel(a)nigelnguyen.org Website: www.nigelnguyen.org Phone: +64 21 484628 Ask not what computer can do for you, Ask what you can do with your computer.