DIRECTORY CONTAINS EMPTY BLOCKS

[Lou Hevly <soc_(_at_)_visca_(_dot_)_com>]

Greetings:

Last night my OpenBSD 3.5 machine went dead, I believe because of a 
kernel panic.  I'm sorry I did not copy down the message on the 
terminal, but it ended with the message "Don't even think about 
reporting this kernel panic without running...".  At any rate, it was 
late and I hoped rebooting would solve the problem.

It didn't.  When trying to reboot, during the filesystem checks I got 
an "UNECPECTED INCONSISTENCY" ERROR for /usr.  I dropped into the shell 
and did 'fsck -p /usr' and the message was:
DIRECTORY: /obj/usr.sbin/spamb CONTAINS EMPTY BLOCKS

So I did fsck_ffs /usr and got the same message follwed by "ADJUST 
LENGTH?", to which I answered 'y' 12 times.  Then I got a "PLEASE RERUN 
FSCK" message.  Which I did, but with the same result as before:
DIRECTORY: /obj/usr.sbin/spamb CONTAINS EMPTY BLOCKS

I tried booting into single user mode and making /usr 'ro', but this 
didn't help.  I don't know where to go from here and would appreciate 
any suggestions anybody would be kind enough to give.

Thank-you.
--
All the best (Adéu-siau),
Lou Hevly
soc_(_at_)_visca_(_dot_)_com
http://www.visca.com