Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2005 16:56:18 -0500 From: "Amer Alhabsi" <ahalhabsi@ualr.edu> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Can't login with /var was not properly dismounted Message-ID: <000501c56bab$bc442790$2802a8c0@jaber>
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>On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 12:23:59PM -0500, Amer Alhabsi wrote: >> Hi, >> >> 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. But >> 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 doing fsck -y /var (using signle user mode) I get ** /dev/ar0s4d ** Last Mounted on /var ** Phase 1 - Check Block and Sizes pressing ^T right after issueing the command I get load : 0.42 cmd: fsck_ufs 70 [physrd] 0.00u 0.00s 0% 1336k then it hangs. It doesn't respond to further pressing of ^T.
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