Date: Sat, 08 May 1999 18:29:56 -0400 From: James Kalmadge <kalmadg@banet.net> To: Brian Bell <brianb@strategywon.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Infrequent but nasty problem Message-ID: <3734BAE4.167EB0E7@banet.net> References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905061403240.13306-100000@strategywon.com>
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Brian, If I can chime in with my 2c worth . . I recently built a bum kernel which crashed and left the machine in a state which even the old kernel wouldn't run in. I began to believe that I had irrevocably hosed my disk. However, I was able to fix it by booting off the cdrom, going to fixit with disk #2 and using fsck a couple times and then mounting the disk partitions in /dev/mnt2 on new directories I made in /tmp. (mkdir /tmp/root, etc). I poked around the disks for a while. They seemed good. So I rebooted and it was okay. This happened twice. It doesn't sound like it would be better than using the old kernel as Doug White suggested, but I don't expect computers to be logical all of the time :-) James 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. Rebooted and > deleted the rc5 program and tried to run my other program (make of > java1.1.7) Crashed my whole system. Rebooted again and fsck was starting > to find lots of problems. Kicked out of the boot and said to run fsck > manually. I did and it fixed some block problems. Went into xwindows and > tried to run netscape. Crash out of xwindows. Tried to restart xwindows > and crashed the whole system. When I rebooted some times i get a huge > crash right after boot up with the 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 > > >From the desk of > Brian Bell > or (602) 231-0918 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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