Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2005 13:41:32 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Amer Alhabsi <ahalhabsi@ualr.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't login with /var was not properly dismounted Message-ID: <20050607174131.GA98306@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <001b01c56b85$b1611840$a61aa790@etas383c03> References: <001b01c56b85$b1611840$a61aa790@etas383c03>
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--YZ5djTAD1cGYuMQK Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 12:23:59PM -0500, Amer Alhabsi wrote: > Hi, >=20 > My FreeBSD 5.4 machine stopped responding and I pressed the reset button > (even SSH from a different machine didn't work). After restart, I got /usr > and /var were not properly dismounted message and it hangs. I logged on in > single mode and done > fsck -y /usr as suggested in a google search. /usr was cleaned. B= ut > when I try to do the same on /var the machine hangs. At first I thought it > was taking a long time, but there is no disk activity. Please help me so > that I can log back to the machine. Press ^T to find out what state the fsck process is in. Are there any other messages displayed on the console before or during? Kris --YZ5djTAD1cGYuMQK Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCpdxLWry0BWjoQKURAgq4AJ9FQrMm1KHvpZKeTajdL0Ixrbn8YACfdA5l 2Q6U3SOuO2LYR56rZayykgY= =lj4G -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --YZ5djTAD1cGYuMQK--
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