Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 14:22:28 +0000 From: Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> To: Bret Walker <bret-walker@northwestern.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Discovering File System Corruption Message-ID: <0FAC6B95-E91D-46A3-B0E1-E4676A8C8027@submonkey.net> In-Reply-To: <43C3C414.5090603@northwestern.edu> References: <43C3C414.5090603@northwestern.edu>
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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --Apple-Mail-4--231640925 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed On 10 Jan 2006, at 14:26, Bret Walker wrote: > I have a 6.0-RELEASE-p1 box with a GENERIC kerbnel that I'm having > some > trouble with. > > I recently reconstituted the machine from being a 5.4 box. I didn't > upgrade, I reinstalled. > > When I was trying to install tripwire, kept getting this message: > "./bin/i386-unknown-freebsd_r/siggen missing. Build did not complete > successfully. > *** Error code 1" > > I CVSupped a few times, even deleting the tripwire directory > completely > and letting CVSup re-add it. I finally fixed the problem by copying > the > missing file from another box. > > The maintainer of the the port wrote to me: > " The missing files were missing from the distfile extraction, not > the port. > The distfile failed to extract properly. That indicates that either > tar > failed (unlikely) or that you have some kind of filesystem problem. > You > have a problem much more serious than a mere port that failed to > build." > > I have run fsck in single user mode many times, each time coming > back clean. > I ran fsck -f -p, to make sure I wasn't having any problems like > this ( > http://freebsd.rambler.ru/bsdmail/freebsd-current_2003/ > msg04802.html ). > > How can I determine what is going on? Do I have filesystem corruption, > or is something else going on? Try to extract the distfile that you downloaded and see if it is corrupted or incomplete. Ceri --Apple-Mail-4--231640925 content-type: application/pgp-signature; x-mac-type=70674453; name=PGP.sig content-description: This is a digitally signed message part content-disposition: inline; filename=PGP.sig content-transfer-encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Darwin) iD8DBQFDxRSlme8yCsQvJJ0RAnvPAJsErtK/ZHsjslm6Lz8g+qbyOdglpwCfXJFf d1nuEaeGYBUV+NAkvwSSLPk= =J16p -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Apple-Mail-4--231640925--
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