From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 23 8:36:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from matrix.42.org (matrix.42.org [194.246.250.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF60B14C4A for ; Fri, 23 Jul 1999 08:36:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sec@42.org) Received: (from sec@localhost) by matrix.42.org (8.8.8/8.8.5) id RAA19807 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org (sender ); Fri, 23 Jul 1999 17:35:39 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 17:35:38 +0200 From: Stefan `Sec` Zehl To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: please help. FreeBSD eats my disk. Message-ID: <19990723173538.A19652@matrix.42.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i I-love-doing-this: really Accept-Languages: de, en X-URL: http://sec.42.org/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It started yesterday when my ide-disk suddenly hadf hard read errors. I bought a new shiny 10g ide drive, and installed FreeBSD-3.1 on it. Then I cvsupped 3.2-STABLE, and started cd /usr/src && make world && cd sys/i386/conf && config BTL && \ cd ../../compile/BTL && make depend && make && make install Then I logged out and went to work. When I came back, it was not reacting to any keypresses on the console. Switching to an other vty still worked, but pressing any key resulted in "pid 124 getty exited on signal 10 (core dumped)" Ctr+Alt+Del didn't work, so i pressed the reset button. Now / was completely unreadable (can't find /kernel). I booted from floppy and mounted the life filesystem CD, and started fsdb. It first claimed that the default and alternate superblocks didn't match, but did let me do an ls of / (inode=2). No comes the funny part. All the entries there are in MiXeD CaSe. I have "KeRnEl.GeNeRiC, GeTtY.CoRe" and so on. Taking a look into etc (or better EtC now) reveals that not all of / had been affected. Nowthe question is, how can _this_ happen ? A heat problem is very unlikely since this box ran fine with 3-STABLE since 3.0 came out, and survived quite a few make worlds in the meantime. CU, Sec -- One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had now way to indicate successful termination of their C Programs. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message