Date: Sun, 03 May 1998 19:17:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Nicole <freelist@webweaver.net> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help...Unexpected inconsistency Message-ID: <XFMail.980503191750.freelist@webweaver.net> In-Reply-To: <19980504082739.Z356@freebie.lemis.com>
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On 03-May-98 Greg Lehey wisely wrote: > On Sun, 3 May 1998 at 12:54:24 -0700, Nicole wrote: >> >> Hello everyone >> I hope that someone can help me with a weird boot up problem. >> >> All of a sudden a new computer I was working on refuses to boot. The error >> on b >> ootup is: >> >> <SNIP> >> Starting reboot .. (Or something to that effect) >> Mounts all drives until.... >> >> Cannot alloc 8340481 bytes for typemap >> /dev/rsd1s1c can't check file system >> Unexpected inconsistency >> >> What shell would you like.......(Or something to that effect) >> >> At this point I can go into sh and type mount -a and it will mount just >> fine. >> Also If I comment out that drive, I can boot up and then mount it. >> >> It seems unrelated, but the problem started after I killed a mountd process. >> The >> computer paniced and restarted with the problem. > > What happens if you boot up with the file system commented out, and > then run fsck against it? It looks to me like there is some breakage > in the file system which mount hasn't seen, but which causes fsck to > go crazy. If that's the case, the safest thing might be to back up > the file system, re-newfs it, and restore. Beware, though, backing up > could cause a panic. > > Greg > Hi Greg It will boot just dandy. and fsck will find nothing wrong. Monday I will have a chance to try increasing my defaults for daemon in login.conf. That was the onl y thing that was changed that I can remember. Thanks Nicole nicole@webweaver.net - http://www.webweaver.net/ webmistress@dangermouse.org - http://www.dangermouse.org/ ------------------------------------------------- -- Powered by Coka Cola and FreeBSD -- -- Stong enough for a man - But made for a Woman -- -- Microsoft: What bug would you like today? -- -- I tried an internal modem once, but it hurt when I walked -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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