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Date:      Wed, 10 Mar 2004 19:19:48 +0100
From:      Manfred Lotz <manfred.lotz@web.de>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: unexpected softupdate inconsistency
Message-ID:  <pan.2004.03.10.18.19.42.197648@web.de>
References:  <pan.2004.03.10.07.27.44.911448@web.de> <1078910490.1333.2.camel@localhost> <20040310112332.76f76bf7.manfred.lotz@web.de> <200403101139.08107.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net>

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On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 11:39:07 +0100, Michael Nottebrock wrote:

> On Wednesday 10 March 2004 11:23, Manfred Lotz wrote:
>> On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 19:21:30 +1000
>>
>> Mark Sergeant <msergeant@snsonline.net> wrote:
>> > In situations like this it can be useful to use vim on the dir entry
>> > that is affected and remove the invalid filenames. This has worked for
>> > me before.
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> >
>> > Mark
>>
>> Thanks for the reply. Have to admit that it would have never occured to
>> me to do this. Good idea.
>>
>> Did you experience this often? I'm worried. Never had something like
>> this before.
> 
> You should watch that system - filesystems going bad out of the blue are 
> usually a warning sign of failing hardware (though not necessarily the hdd 
> itself, might be power issues, bad memory, etc.).

Thanks, I'll have my eye on it.  Unpleasant situation anyhow.


-- 
Manfred




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