From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 27 18:29:43 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA14135 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 27 Aug 1996 18:29:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts7-line14.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.61]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA14130 for ; Tue, 27 Aug 1996 18:29:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id SAA00243; Tue, 27 Aug 1996 18:29:30 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 18:29:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: "Jay L. West" cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2 problems, cpio & shutdown In-Reply-To: <199608271350.IAA00470@bsd.tseinc.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 27 Aug 1996, Jay L. West wrote: > We're having two problems on our 2.1.5-RELEASE system: > > 1.) We try to create a backup on disk with cpio such as > 'find . |cpio -ovcB > mytest', and many of the files give us a > message such as 'cpio: /somepath/somefile : truncating inode number'. > I thought this would mean corrupt files, but fsck reports no problems. > Any ideas? Don't know if this is germane, but most of the files appear > to be users web page files that probably arrived via ftp from a pc. Don't know on this one. I personally use 'dump' for backup/restore. > 2.) On a 'shutdown -r', the reboot fails. It says something about > 'keyboard reset failed, attempting cpu shutdown' and then it just > hangs. We've tried replacing the keyboard and using the option > 'broken_keyboard_reset', but to no avail. Suggestions? Your computer is busted, that's about it. :( You'll just have to resort to cntl-alt-del or the reset button. Use shutdown -h ... which halts it and says 'press any key to reboot' or something, when you get that hit the three finger salute. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major