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Date:      Tue, 27 Aug 1996 18:29:30 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        "Jay L. West" <jlwest@tseinc.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 2 problems, cpio & shutdown
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.960827182803.216B-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199608271350.IAA00470@bsd.tseinc.com>

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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




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