From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 11 14:22:45 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46B7216A41F for ; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 14:22:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ceri@submonkey.net) Received: from hermes2.cf.ac.uk (hermes2.cf.ac.uk [131.251.0.113]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0964343D92 for ; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 14:22:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ceri@submonkey.net) Received: from fenrir.insrv.cf.ac.uk ([131.251.50.213]) by hermes2.cf.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Ewgro-0008UV-HJ; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 14:22:24 +0000 In-Reply-To: <43C3C414.5090603@northwestern.edu> References: <43C3C414.5090603@northwestern.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Apple-Mail-4--231640925" Message-Id: <0FAC6B95-E91D-46A3-B0E1-E4676A8C8027@submonkey.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Ceri Davies Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 14:22:28 +0000 To: Bret Walker X-Pgp-Agent: GPGMail 1.1.1 (Tiger) X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.746.2) X-Virus-Scanned: Cardiff University Sophos AV Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Discovering File System Corruption X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 14:22:45 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --Apple-Mail-4--231640925 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed On 10 Jan 2006, at 14:26, Bret Walker wrote: > I have a 6.0-RELEASE-p1 box with a GENERIC kerbnel that I'm having > some > trouble with. > > I recently reconstituted the machine from being a 5.4 box. I didn't > upgrade, I reinstalled. > > When I was trying to install tripwire, kept getting this message: > "./bin/i386-unknown-freebsd_r/siggen missing. Build did not complete > successfully. > *** Error code 1" > > I CVSupped a few times, even deleting the tripwire directory > completely > and letting CVSup re-add it. I finally fixed the problem by copying > the > missing file from another box. > > The maintainer of the the port wrote to me: > " The missing files were missing from the distfile extraction, not > the port. > The distfile failed to extract properly. That indicates that either > tar > failed (unlikely) or that you have some kind of filesystem problem. > You > have a problem much more serious than a mere port that failed to > build." > > I have run fsck in single user mode many times, each time coming > back clean. > I ran fsck -f -p, to make sure I wasn't having any problems like > this ( > http://freebsd.rambler.ru/bsdmail/freebsd-current_2003/ > msg04802.html ). > > How can I determine what is going on? Do I have filesystem corruption, > or is something else going on? Try to extract the distfile that you downloaded and see if it is corrupted or incomplete. Ceri --Apple-Mail-4--231640925 content-type: application/pgp-signature; x-mac-type=70674453; name=PGP.sig content-description: This is a digitally signed message part content-disposition: inline; filename=PGP.sig content-transfer-encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Darwin) iD8DBQFDxRSlme8yCsQvJJ0RAnvPAJsErtK/ZHsjslm6Lz8g+qbyOdglpwCfXJFf d1nuEaeGYBUV+NAkvwSSLPk= =J16p -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Apple-Mail-4--231640925--