From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 28 23: 8:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60CA237B400; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 23:08:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE26B43E6E; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 23:08:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id F29CD81291; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 15:38:36 +0930 (CST) Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 15:38:36 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: shubha mr Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Failed fsck (was: BSD GOD,save me!) Message-ID: <20020829060836.GI27285@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20020829044336.34942.qmail@web14605.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020829044336.34942.qmail@web14605.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday, 29 August 2002 at 5:43:36 +0100, shubha mr wrote: > Hi, > Here is the tragic story! > When I booted my BSD machine this morning,it said > Automatic file system check failed...........help! > Enter full pathname of the shell or RETURN for bin/sh > > I entered /bin/csh (I was not sure tho') In case of doubt, use the default, /bin/sh. > Cannot open /et/termcap Using dumb terminal settings. > > It does not even enter /usr/src..It says no such file > or directory.. Yes, that's fine. It's not mounted yet. First you need to fsck the file systems. For example: # fsck -y / # fsck -y /usr # exit If you get another "automatic fsck failed" message, note the name of the file system and do the same again with it. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message