From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Aug 8 4:24:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from io.cts.com (io.cts.com [198.68.174.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33A0214EBA for ; Sun, 8 Aug 1999 04:24:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mdavis@cts.com) Received: from VOYAGER (voyager.cts.com [198.68.174.38]) by io.cts.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with SMTP id EAA00419 for ; Sun, 8 Aug 1999 04:20:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mdavis@cts.com) From: "Morgan Davis" To: Subject: Removing files in /lost+found causes panic Date: Sun, 8 Aug 1999 04:20:37 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2918.2701 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm running FreeBSD 3.2-stable (last cvsup/make-world was yesterday, new kernel installed, etc.). A recent fsck after a bad shutdown left several weird files in /lost+found. They look like character or block device files, with random flag attributes and modes. I read the FAQ/handbook items on using chflags to clean up the flags that keep you from removing the files. But when I attempt to remove them, the system panics every time. I tried it in single user mode, no difference. I booted up the Fixit floppy, mounted the drive, and tried again. Same problem. This happens on the root filesystem's lost+found as well as on the /usr filesystem (which is the only one that has softupdates enabled). What is the trick to cleaning out these /lost+found directories without panicing? Thanks. --Morgan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message