-bash: /bin/ls: Input/output error (PE2650 RH8 kernel 2.4.18-18.8.0smp)

[Philip Rowlands]

On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Barton, Christopher wrote:

>After running without incident for 10 days or so, my system now enters a
>strange state each day where new processes cannot be created.  Every
>command results in the error message "Input/output error".

Sounds like disk errors. You'll probably find SCSI or filesystem errors
in the kernel log (dmesg).


Cheers,

Phil