From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 19 22: 1:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (rwcrmhc53.attbi.com [204.127.198.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F20C37B404 for ; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 22:01:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from blossom.cjclark.org ([12.234.91.48]) by rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020320060119.VCEL2951.rwcrmhc53.attbi.com@blossom.cjclark.org> for ; Wed, 20 Mar 2002 06:01:19 +0000 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g2K61JO69492 for current@freebsd.org; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 22:01:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 22:01:18 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: current@freebsd.org Subject: "Unexpected Soft Update Inconsistency" Message-ID: <20020319220118.F67739@blossom.cjclark.org> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i X-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've got a -CURRENT system that is seriously resisting attempts to revive it. No matter how many times I run fsck(8), it tells me, ** /dev/ad0s1a ** Last Mounted on / ** Root file system ** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes CANNOT READ BLK: 8407744 UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY CONTINUE? yes THE FOLLOWING DISK SECTORS COULD NOT BE READ: 8407744, 8407745, 8407746, 8407747, 8407748, 8407749, 8407750, 8407751, 8407752, 8407753, 8407754, 8407755, 8407756, 8407757, 8407758, 8407759, ** Phase 2 - Check Pathnames ** Phase 3 - Check Connectivity ** Phase 4 - Check Reference Counts ** Phase 5 - Check Cyl groups 133720 files, 1429523 used, 2651122 free (34074 frags, 327131 blocks, 0.8% fragmentation) ***** FILE SYSTEM STILL DIRTY ***** ***** PLEASE RERUN FSCK ***** There are no reports of hard errors, so I believe this is purely a "soft" error. Any advice on how to fix? -- Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu | cjclark@jhu.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message