Hello,

Somehow the contents of the /lib/modules/2.6.18-chw-13 directory are corrupt and I was wondering how I can rebuild/replace it??

Somehow all of these files got changed October 4th, and I know I didn't do anything to cause this since I wasn't even in town then:



I tried today to use my KnoppMyth box, but when it boots I get messages about the "modules.alias" file in particular having bad entries in it. Looking at the file I see it is truncated:



and it just ends there. Any ideas? Or will I be re-installing?

Also, the following files/directories have the same "Oct 4 19:26" timestamp:

/etc/modprobe.d
/etc/modules.conf
/etc/modules.conf.old
/etc/modprobe.d/KnoppMyth
/etc/mythtv/Cards
/home/mythtv/.newcard

There is no difference between /etc/modules.conf and /etc/modules.conf.old

/etc/mythtv/Cards looks OK (I have a PVR-350 and 150):

02:02.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC16 (CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)
02:04.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC15 MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)

/etc/modprobe.d/KnoppMyth:

include /etc/mythtv/modules/ivtv
include /etc/mythtv/modules/ivtv0
include /etc/mythtv/modules/ivtv1

You don't have the box exposed directly to the net do you? That's a really bad idea...

As for recovery, my initial thought was to point you to directions for getting fresh copies of files like that off of the install CD, but on second thought a good backup and auto-upgrade to the same version is probably the safest course of action. I might go so far as to get a utility CD and scrub the HD (including the boot sector) with it as thoroughly as possible. You might even want to reset the BIOS...