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Date:      Tue, 16 Sep 1997 07:35:18 -0700
From:      John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
To:        Conrad Sabatier <conrads@neosoft.com>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Error message while cvsup'ing RELENG_2_2 
Message-ID:  <199709161435.HAA03314@austin.polstra.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 16 Sep 1997 06:58:09 CDT." <XFMail.970916065809.conrads@neosoft.com> 

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> >> Cannot calculate checksum for "/usr/ports/games/angband/pkg/PLIST":
> >> Device not configured
> >
> >Gads, that's a new one!  What happens when you run this command?
> >
> >    /sbin/md5 /usr/ports/games/angband/pkg/PLIST
> 
> root:/usr/home/conrads# /sbin/md5 /usr/ports/games/angband/pkg/PLIST
> /usr/ports/games/angband/pkg/PLIST: Device not configured

:-)

> A-ha!  I think we've found it!
> 
> root:/usr/home/conrads# ls -l /usr/ports/games/angband/pkg/PLIST
> br-srw--w-  1 8426901  8085310   52, 0x3934003a Dec  3 05:07
> /usr/ports/games/angband/pkg/PLIST
> 
> I had a nasty system crash about a week ago.  fsck had to do some rather
> extensive cleaning up (thank goodness no serious damage).

Was the filesystem mounted async at the time of the crash?  I'm just
curious.

John
--
   John Polstra                                       jdp@polstra.com
   John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.                Seattle, Washington USA
   "Self-knowledge is always bad news."                 -- John Barth



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