One of my servers had crashed last night and I found the following entry in the messages and warn files this morning: Jan 3 02:01:10 sparc-sun kernel: vs-7042: entry_points_to_object: entry must be visible \|/ ____ \|/ Jan 3 02:01:10 sparc-sun kernel: "@'/ .. \`@" Jan 3 02:01:10 sparc-sun kernel: /_| \__/ |_\ Jan 3 02:01:10 sparc-sun kernel: \__U_/ Jan 3 02:01:10 sparc-sun kernel: rateup(7073): Kernel bad trap Jan 3 02:01:10 sparc-sun kernel: TSTATE: 0000004411009600 TPC: 000000000101d2f8 TNPC: 000000000101d2fc Y: 00000000 Tainted: P Jan 3 02:01:10 sparc-sun kernel: g0: fffff80010e81000 g1: 0000000000000001 g2: 0000000000000001 g3: 0000000000000000 Jan 3 02:01:10 sparc-sun kernel: g4: fffff80000000000 g5: 0000000000000000 g6: fffff800168a4000 g7: 0000000000000000 Jan 3 02:01:10 sparc-sun kernel: o0: 0000000000000039 o1: 00000000006bbde1 o2: 0000000000000000 o3: 000000000060ea44 Jan 3 02:01:10 sparc-sun kernel: o4: fffff8001311972f o5: 000000006f6c6400 sp: fffff800168a6ef1 ret_pc: 000000000101d2f0 Jan 3 02:01:10 sparc-sun kernel: l0: fffff80013119688 l1: 0000000000000064 l2: 000000000000ff00 l3: fffff800168a7840 Jan 3 02:01:10 sparc-sun kernel: l4: 0000000000ff0000 l5: 000000000fffffff l6: 00000000ffffffff l7: ffffffffffffffff Jan 3 02:01:10 sparc-sun kernel: i0: 0000000000000000 i1: 000000000103db98 i2: fffff80013119690 i3: 0000000000000006 Jan 3 02:01:10 sparc-sun kernel: i4: 0000000000000080 i5: 00000000808da621 i6: fffff800168a6fb1 i7: 000000000100ab10 Jan 3 02:01:10 sparc-sun kernel: Caller[000000000100ab10] Jan 3 02:01:10 sparc-sun kernel: Caller[000000000100af6c] Jan 3 02:01:10 sparc-sun kernel: Caller[00000000004732d8] Jan 3 02:01:10 sparc-sun kernel: Caller[00000000004733cc] Jan 3 02:01:10 sparc-sun kernel: Caller[000000000047364c] Jan 3 02:01:10 sparc-sun kernel: Caller[00000000004105b4] Jan 3 02:01:10 sparc-sun kernel: Caller[000000000001b4b4] Jan 3 02:01:10 sparc-sun kernel: Instruction DUMP: 13004107 7fd09934 921263c8 <91d02005> 01000000 9de3bf30 c6162008 d05e2028 d0122004 Is someone on the kernel development team being funny (the first few lines) or is there a possibility I have been hacked. This machine has NO internet access from the outside. Sun sparc enterprise1 Suse 7.3 (for sparc) Second part As a result of the crash I lost a couple of files which have been restored from backup, but there is now a corrupt directory (moved the corrupt one to a different name before restoring files) containing the following using ls -la: sparc-sun:/usr/local # ll stats.corrupt/ ls: stats.corrupt/íA: No such file or directory total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 80 Jan 3 07:51 . drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 424 Jan 3 08:10 .. drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 424 Jan 3 08:10 .. sparc-sun:/usr/local # Yes you are seeing two entrys for .. and I cannot delete the corrupted directory. Any suggestions on how to remove the dir short of formatting the filesystem? Thanks, -- Ken Schneider Senior UNIX Administrator Network Administrator