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Date:      Sun, 10 Aug 2014 12:31:19 +0200
From:      Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>
To:        David Benfell <benfell@parts-unknown.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: operation not permitted on entropy file
Message-ID:  <20140810103119.GA26958@slackbox.erewhon.home>
In-Reply-To: <20140810070239.GA80734@home.parts-unknown.org>
References:  <20140810070239.GA80734@home.parts-unknown.org>

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On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 12:02:39AM -0700, David Benfell wrote:
> Something seems very much to have gone awry:
>=20
> home# ls -al /var/db/entropy
> total 40
> drwx------   2 operator  operator      512 Aug  9 23:55 .
> drwxr-xr-x  23 root      wheel        1024 Aug  9 22:49 ..
> -r--------   1 operator  operator     2048 Aug  9 23:55
> saved-entropy.1
> -r--------   1 operator  operator     2048 Aug  9 23:44
> saved-entropy.2
> -r--------  23 operator  4194309   9308160 Aug  9 22:00
> saved-entropy.7
> home#=20
>=20
> Notice the group assigned to that saved-entropy.7 file.

This looks like a classical example of filesystem corruption.

If a filesystem isn't dismounted properly (e.g. because of a crash), you
should get a warning during the next boot. And the system would run a
filesystem check in "preen" mode (see fsck(8)). If it finds serious errors
that cannot be repaired in preen mode, you should get an error message.

As others have mentioned, run a full fsck of the filesystem that /var is on
=66rom single user mode.

Trying to make a backup in this state will probably not work.


Roland
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