fsck status 8 on non-existent /dev/.tmp-254-1 dvice

[R Kimber]

On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:53:36 +0100
James Cummings wrote:

> No one has any suggestions? I've not done anything weird on the
> machines, and seems to be on a couple machines which have been through
> a few upgrades.  Any suggestions as to what might be causing it?  I
> don't want to have to turn off checkfs at boot entirely!  Since one of
> the machines is physically in a different country from me, I don't
> want to have to keep having someone go and hit control-D to exit the
> maintenance shell any time they have a little power blip.

There's an e2fsck mailing list somewhere, you might like to try that.
Google should find it for you.

-- 
Richard Kimber
http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/