Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 20:34:47 -0800 From: Rishi Chopra <rchopra@cal.berkeley.edu> To: questions@freebsd.org Cc: Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@apropo.ro> Subject: Re: Booting Problem After Power Loss (fsck)? Message-ID: <4036DFE7.8070602@cal.berkeley.edu> In-Reply-To: <402868A6.8020905@cal.berkeley.edu> References: <401F1A5E.8040105@cal.berkeley.edu> <401F6542.2090504@cal.berkeley.edu> <20040203112519.3f806ab3@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro> <402716D3.5060604@cal.berkeley.edu> <20040209114446.5b8d5689@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro> <402868A6.8020905@cal.berkeley.edu>
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Good news and bad news: Good News: System seems to have recovered. Booting into single user mode and running fsck worked great for / and /var, but did nothing for my /usr partition with all my data. After letting fsck run on my /usr partition for 4 days, the raid controller appeared to stall and the machine did not return to a prompt. Regular boot (multi-user mode) somehow worked where it would not work before, and background fsck on the /usr partition eventually ended. The system is now up and reachable, which is all I care about. Bad News: No one who read my last message offered to help. I suppose you can draw your own conclusions about the community-like nature of FreeBSD use in the Bay Area (home to UC Berkeley, FreeBSD Mall, and birthplace of the FreeBSD movement.) -- Rishi Chopra http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~rchopra Rishi Chopra wrote: > I do not have the FIX-IT CD or another FreeBSD machine. > > Is there another fellow FreeBSD'er in the Bay Area, CA that can > volunteer to help me troubleshoot the card as described below (e.g. plug > in the card and break to debugger to gather info)? I can drive over to > your place or you can come over to my house (directions on my homepage). > > If it helps, my perspective is that meeting up is totally positve and > the only thing left keeping me involved with computing - allow me to > explain: > > The server was totally idle when the power was cut, and I didn't make > any changes while the server was down. I've seen some crazy things > working on computers before (I can show you a list, post one to the > newsgroup, or if you're curious you can try searching the google groups > link on my homepage.) This would by far have to the most stubborn, > underhanded, mean, nasty and implausable error I've ever come accross. > > I could really use some help getting the filesytem up again; my heart > can't take another failure like this, and I'm ready to give up computers > (recreationally and professionally) if I can't get this problem fixed. I > had just finished recovering from a 2 year reconsolidation of life and > data (a 75GXP/Raid-0 failure and data loss occurred while I was studying > at UC Berkeley and triggered a very nasty chain of events culminating in > this problem.) I can't handle going through another data consolidation; > recovering from a recent thyroid removal and a 12-hour neck > dissection/removal is a full-time affair, and the 30 some-odd staples in > my neck greatly limit my ability to sit at the computer. > > Looks like the important thing is for me to make a new friend in the > FreeBSD community and a new start on computing, or bid y'all adieu. >
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