Input/output error

[afonso <afonso law uni-kiel de>]

Hi,

I am experiencing problems with my RedHat 9. I have been using RedHat 
for a long time already and I installed the version 9 some time ago - 
without problems. In the last two weeks some commands aren't working 
anymore. "Halt" is one of them. I am not able to shutdown RedHat anymore 
(if I choose to shutdown at the login screen, the system just returns to 
this screen and does nothing; if I try to shutdown in a shell window it 
doesn't work as well).

If I try to reboot the system, I have similiar problems. In this case, 
however, the system does try to reboot, but at the end I get the message 
"INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel" and I have to turn off 
the computer.

Other error messages by rebooting:

"/etc/rc6.d/S01reboot: line 64 /sbin/halt: Input/output error"
"/etc/rc6.d/S01reboot: line 204 /sbin/halt: Input/output error"
"/etc/rc6.d/S01reboot: line 204: exec /sbin/reboot: cannot execute: 
Input/output error".

When a do a "ls" command at "/sbin" directory all the "commands with 
problems" - like halt - are listed like that:
"halt: Input/output error"

Reading some messages on newsgroups I decided to run fsck. The problems 
could not be solved and now some commands (like halt) disappeared from 
/sbin. I think if I copy new versions of those programs to /sbin the 
problems would be solved, but I don't know where to find them (I am 
having problems also with chgrp, localtime, stty and others).

I thank for any comment on my problem. And sorry for my confused message 
and my poor English.

Afonso