Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2005 18:36:52 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Amer Alhabsi <ahalhabsi@ualr.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't login with /var was not properly dismounted Message-ID: <20050607223652.GA80292@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <000501c56bab$bc442790$2802a8c0@jaber> References: <000501c56bab$bc442790$2802a8c0@jaber>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 04:56:18PM -0500, Amer Alhabsi wrote: > > >On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 12:23:59PM -0500, Amer Alhabsi wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> My FreeBSD 5.4 machine stopped responding and I pressed the reset button > >> (even SSH from a different machine didn't work). After restart, I got > /usr > >> and /var were not properly dismounted message and it hangs. I logged on > in > >> single mode and done > >> fsck -y /usr as suggested in a google search. /usr was cleaned. > But > >> when I try to do the same on /var the machine hangs. At first I thought > it > >> was taking a long time, but there is no disk activity. Please help me so > >> that I can log back to the machine. > > > >Press ^T to find out what state the fsck process is in. Are there any > >other messages displayed on the console before or during? > > > >Kris > > doing fsck -y /var (using signle user mode) I get > ** /dev/ar0s4d > ** Last Mounted on /var > ** Phase 1 - Check Block and Sizes > > pressing ^T right after issueing the command I get > load : 0.42 cmd: fsck_ufs 70 [physrd] 0.00u 0.00s 0% 1336k > then it hangs. It doesn't respond to further pressing of ^T. I wonder if you have hardware failure..it seems to be hung trying to read from the disk. Kris [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCpiGDWry0BWjoQKURAiBoAKCJtuHPj9hmqG+ybxI4ciPpd8M0XgCfbTUE +IR7egNMKh2V4AgHnKMW/Dc= =JIhc -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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