ls is getting killed

[Doug]

  On 09/19/2010 11:43 AM, Tapas Mishra wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 9:34 PM, Nils Kassube<kassube at gmx.net>  wrote:
>> Just another wild guess: Could it be that the partition with your /home
>> directory doesn't have any space left?
> Well I had just installed the OS so this possibility I do not seem correct.
> Before this error occurred I had removed office and many other
> packages (from synaptics)
> which exist in many normal home users.
> The  worst case for me will be to re install complete OS.
> I just logged in via Ctrl+Alt+F1
> and using cfdisk to check if the partition is filled up I got following error
>
> "FATAL ERROR: Bad primary partition 1: Partition ends in the final
> partial cylind
> Press any key to exit cfdisk "
>
> in above message there is no typo error I have typed exactly as it gave.
>
Try running GParted, and if it offers to fix something, let it.
If that doesn't work, run it again, check that the right partition
is marked for boot, and Write (upper case W) the partition
table, without actually changing anything.  This seemingly
useless routine got me out of a bind just the other day.

--doug

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