Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 10:11:33 -0500 (CDT) From: igor@alecto.physics.uiuc.edu (Igor Roshchin) To: conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier) Cc: jdp@polstra.com, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Error message while cvsup'ing RELENG_2_2 Message-ID: <199709171511.KAA23225@alecto.physics.uiuc.edu> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.970916192506.conrads@neosoft.com> from "Conrad Sabatier" at Sep 16, 97 07:25:06 pm
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> > > On 16-Sep-97 John Polstra wrote: > > > >> 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. > > Um, I'm really not sure what that is, to be honest. :-) I just do a > normal mount on startup from fstab: > > > # Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass# > /dev/wd1a / ufs rw 1 1 > /dev/wd1s1f /usr ufs rw 1 1 > /dev/wd1s1e /var ufs rw 1 1 > proc /proc procfs rw 0 0 > /dev/wcd0c /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 > /dev/wd0s1 /c msdos rw 0 0 > /dev/wd1s1b none swap sw 0 0 > /dev/wd0s2b none swap sw 0 0 > > -- Since it was interesting for somebody - I had (two times) similar crashes - I mean with similar consequencies - after fsck I've got some files which became "special files" - (br-w..., cr-w... ) and once one of them happened to be /var/log/messages So, my system even could not tell me error messages. I had to go into single user mode and clean the inodes these files were using, because regular "rm" would not work on them THough, this happened on 2.1-STABLE with SCSI drives (I blamed on the well known bug in the driver for adaptec scsi cards) Sorry for such "off-topic". IgoR
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