Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 11:46:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Brian Bell <brianb@strategywon.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Infrequent but nasty problem Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9905061142260.25986-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905061403240.13306-100000@strategywon.com>
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On Thu, 6 May 1999, Brian Bell wrote: > Hi everybody, > My 3.1 FreeBSD system has run well for some time but this morning I sat > down to my machine and it had crashed during the night. I saw that it had > run fsck fine. I logged in and got xwindows running with no problems > until I tried to run one of the programs that the machine was running at > the crash (rc5 proj). Instant crash of the whole system. Can you give more details on these crashes? Do you get ay error messages? Does it happen to non-X applications? > error of the pager. So I am now booting kernel.old and running fcsk > to find out what is crapping things out. It keeps just saying disk > dirty rerun fsck. I have done that now 6 times. What do I need to do > to start stabilizing my system? I am afraid to start anything do to > it might just hose my system and that would hurt:) Let me know what > more details you want. thnxs Sounds like you've thrown a disk. To do a proper fsck 1. During boot hit a key to the the prompt, then type boot -s 2. Hit return when prompted. 3. Run fsck -y -a Keep running this until you get no errors. Then reboot by typing 'reboot' and you should be back up. If it keeps getting errors, you may need to replace your disk. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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