From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 2 20:09:57 2004 Return-Path: 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 8CF6E16A4CE for ; Mon, 2 Feb 2004 20:09:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from m00.ca.astound.net (m00.ca.astound.net [64.85.239.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5636543D2D for ; Mon, 2 Feb 2004 20:09:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rchopra@cal.berkeley.edu) Received: from cal.berkeley.edu (astound-64-85-229-134.ca.astound.net [64.85.229.134]) by m00.ca.astound.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i13489KL018719; Mon, 2 Feb 2004 20:08:09 -0800 Message-ID: <401F1EAD.9020300@cal.berkeley.edu> Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 20:08:13 -0800 From: Rishi Chopra User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031205 Thunderbird/0.4 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ion-Mihai Tetcu References: <401F1A5E.8040105@cal.berkeley.edu> <20040203060430.192186f1@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro> In-Reply-To: <20040203060430.192186f1@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting Problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 04:09:57 -0000 Thank you! Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: > On Mon, 02 Feb 2004 19:49:50 -0800 > Rishi Chopra wrote: > > >>I'm getting the following error message during startup: >> >>/usr: mount pending error: blocks 16 files 1 >> >>I'm guessing this orrcured due to a shutdown during background fsck of >>the filesystem. > > > Not necessarily during a bgfsck, just the filesystem is not clean, so > bgfsck will run. > > >>Will the error fix itself (e.g. will the boot process continue and >>finally proceed to a prompt) or do I need to intervene? > > > Usually it will continue, if not, you will be the first or know ;) > > >> If intervention is required, how would I go about setting things right? > > > Watch (tail -F) /var/log/messages, after login, if you get something > strange there (like unexpected softupdate inconsistency, run fsck > manually or fsck drops core) or if on the next reboot it happens again > boot is single user and run fsck. > > > >>-- >>Rishi Chopra >>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~rchopra >>_______________________________________________ >>freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >>http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >>To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > -- Rishi Chopra http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~rchopra