Date: Sat, 8 May 1999 14:11:10 -0700 (PDT) From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Disappearing/Reappearing Files... Message-ID: <199905082111.OAA34534@vashon.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <199905082048.NAA34474@vashon.polstra.com>
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In article <199905082048.NAA34474@vashon.polstra.com>, John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> wrote: > > I'm seeing something possibly related (possibly not) on an Alpha with > this morning's -current. First I was getting unaligned accesses and > core dumps from the "cp" in /etc/rc that updates the /etc/motd file. > (I added "set -v" to /etc/rc to catch it.) But I could do the copy by > hand once the system was up. Now on the latest reboot I got this from > it: > > + cp /tmp/_motd /etc/motd > + chmod 644 /etc/motd > chmod: : No such file or directory > chmod in free(): warning: recursive call > chmod in free(): warning: recursive call > chmod in free(): warning: recursive call > chmod in free(): warning: recursive call > > (Hmm, why didn't the filename come out in chmod's error message?) > > I'm running with soft-updates but I'll try turning them off. I tried about 10 reboots, half with and half without soft-updates enabled on the various filesystems. With soft-updates disabled, I didn't see the above problem at all. With soft-updates enabled, I saw it most of the time but not always. John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Self-interest is the aphrodisiac of belief." -- James V. DeLong To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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