From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 8 12:35: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A46E150F4 for ; Thu, 8 Apr 1999 12:34:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA01023; Thu, 8 Apr 1999 12:32:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 12:32:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: "Frank J. Cameron" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Server Crash In-Reply-To: <199904081507.LAA17180@compclub.ccacc.cc.pa.us> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Frank J. Cameron wrote: > We're running a 3.1 box as a mail server. This past weekend the > server crashed; these are the last entires from /var/log/messages > before the server was manually re-booted: > > Apr 3 02:00:02 compclub /kernel: bad block 1140850688, ino 8065 > Apr 3 02:00:02 compclub /kernel: pid 74916 (find), uid 1073741824 on /usr: bad > block Ouch. > Additionally, since coming back up some files are missing. I have > noticed that find, finger, fetch, and ftp are missing, possibly more. > > My questions are: > > Where might I find some information on the bad block errors? The system log. That's it. > Does anyone have any reasons why it might not be advisable to proceed > with a 'make installworld' (I've already done 'buildworld') to restore > the missing files? Your disk is corrupted. You should 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