From owner-freebsd-current Sat May 8 14:11:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from wall.polstra.com (rtrwan160.accessone.com [206.213.115.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CB6415453 for ; Sat, 8 May 1999 14:11:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA09375 for ; Sat, 8 May 1999 14:11:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) From: John Polstra Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id OAA34534; Sat, 8 May 1999 14:11:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Date: Sat, 8 May 1999 14:11:10 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199905082111.OAA34534@vashon.polstra.com> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Disappearing/Reappearing Files... In-Reply-To: <199905082048.NAA34474@vashon.polstra.com> Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Cc: Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article <199905082048.NAA34474@vashon.polstra.com>, John Polstra 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