From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 20 20:36:40 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB80316A4CE for ; Fri, 20 Feb 2004 20:36:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from m01.ca.astound.net (m01.ca.astound.net [64.85.239.11]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B189B43D1D for ; Fri, 20 Feb 2004 20:36:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rchopra@cal.berkeley.edu) Received: from cal.berkeley.edu (astound-66-234-212-152.ca.astound.net [66.234.212.152]) by m01.ca.astound.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i1L4Yajo004260; Fri, 20 Feb 2004 20:34:37 -0800 Message-ID: <4036DFE7.8070602@cal.berkeley.edu> Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 20:34:47 -0800 From: Rishi Chopra User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (Windows/20040207) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org 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> In-Reply-To: <402868A6.8020905@cal.berkeley.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new cc: Ion-Mihai Tetcu Subject: Re: Booting Problem After Power Loss (fsck)? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 04:36:40 -0000 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. >