> find: ./??*?: No such file or directory > [root@dev02 i386]# ls > ls: ??*?: Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character > test > > > Guess I will just have to abandon that directory tree until I rebuild > the system one day.. It sounds more like filesystem corruption than just a bad dir. Try umounting the partition (or booting from a rescue disk) then fsck the partition. I've seen this happen with ReiserFS a few times. -- * The Digital Hermit http://www.digitalhermit.com * Unix and Linux Solutions kwan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx