Bad directory: link count 1

I just got a newly configured solaris 10 system and I tried to add a user using the smc tool. The system panicked before the tool finished the job, but the user seemed to be created. When I tried to login using the newly created user, I realized that the home directory for the new user is corrupted (the login was hanging). Here is what shows up when I logged in as root and listed the directory:
root@monterey # ls -li /home
total 1
9 dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 1 Sep 8 09:12 hariYou can see that link count is showing up as 1, and I could neither list the contents of the directory nor remove it. (actually all operations seemed to be hanging) The inum of the directory itself is suspitious so I did a find and found the following regular file with the same inum:
root@monterey # ls -lid ./var/sadm/pkg/SUNWxwdv/save/pspool/SUNWxwdv/pkgmap
9 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 402 Jan 22 2005 ./var/sadm/pkg/SUNWxwdv/save/pspool/SUNWxwdv/pkgmapRunning fsck on the root filesystem doesn't generate any errors, though I ran it while it is mounted (the system administrators guide says it is ok to run fsck on / filesystem even if it is mounted). I am a newbie at solaris administration and I am stuck here, could anyone help me resolve this problem? Is there a way I can remove this directory and recreate it? Is there anther tool that I should run to find this corruption and fix it? Will running fsck after booting from a cd be any different?
Thanks a lot,
Hari

Running fsck on the root filesystem doesn't generate
any errors, though I ran it while it is mounted (the
system administrators guide says it is ok to run fsck
on / filesystem even if it is mounted).Where does it say this? It is not okay to run fsck on a filesystem mounted for writing.
I am a newbie
at solaris administration and I am stuck here, could
anyone help me resolve this problem? Is there a way I
can remove this directory and recreate it? Is there
anther tool that I should run to find this corruption
and fix it? Will running fsck after booting from a cd
be any different?It might. You may also be able to do a 'boot -b' which will stop before mounting the root filesystem read/write. You can safely fsck it at that time.
Darren

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