From owner-freebsd-bugs Sun Jun 18 18:17:02 1995 Return-Path: bugs-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id SAA13892 for bugs-outgoing; Sun, 18 Jun 1995 18:17:02 -0700 Received: from localhost.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id SAA13882 ; Sun, 18 Jun 1995 18:17:00 -0700 Message-Id: <199506190117.SAA13882@freefall.cdrom.com> X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.cdrom.com: Host localhost.cdrom.com didn't use HELO protocol To: Eric Chet cc: davidg@root.com, bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Release 2.0.5 with Updated boot.flp In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 18 Jun 95 16:16:30 EDT." <199506182016.QAA17830@bronze.coil.com> Date: Sun, 18 Jun 1995 18:17:00 -0700 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Sender: bugs-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >> >> >the /usr mount was lost on either shutdown or boot up. It would work for >> >awhile, maybe a dozen cycles of bootup then it would loose /usr mount. I >> >> Can you explain what you mean by "would lose the /usr mount"? I really ha >ve >> no idea what you're talking about. Do you mean that there is some sort of >> filesystem corruption? If so, could you be more specific? >> >> -DG >> > >I think I know what he is talking about. I booted up my machine two days >ago, and the /usr was not mounted. Actually it was like it did not exist. >Any ideas, this is on 2.0.5R the latest boot.flp. > >Eric -- echet@coil.com Could this at all be related to my experience two nights ago? Compiling a "-g"'d kernel and suddenly processes start dying with sig 6,9,10, or 11. Halt the system and reboot, and fsck eats /usr causing any future mounts to state that the superblock is bad. A fsck -b fails to find alternate superblocks. Fsck also did a good job of killing 95% of my data on partitions that weren't even active during the failure. I really believe that either fsck was not moddified correctly when the immutible flags were added to the filesystems, or is in general too agressive when performing clean up, and now, you can't even mount a partition that is dirty to attempt to recover data before going to fsck. End result was a total re-install on my home system (any thing of importance disapeared without even a trace in the lost+found directory), but I will say that the single floppy install over PPP was nice. -- Justin T. Gibbs =========================================== Software Developer - Walnut Creek CDROM FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations ===========================================