Date: Thu, 6 Nov 1997 13:08:51 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: ip@mcc.ac.uk Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fsck dies with sigfpe on a P-II Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971106130759.799E-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199711051608.QAA16044@albatross.mcc.ac.uk>
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On Wed, 5 Nov 1997, Ian Pallfreeman wrote: > I have a new (but cheap) 266MHz P-II with 128Mb of memory and 3*2940s. Two of > the 2940s have 4*4Gb external disks attached, with some old Sun disks and an > Exabyte on the first 2940. I've had loads of problems with the 2*4*4Gb disks, > which I've eventually (I think) traced to our purchasing people saving a > couple of pounds on the SCSI cables -- new cables, no problem, so far... > > To make sure I've ironed out the problems with the external disks, cabling, > etc, I've been running "newfs;sync;fsck;sync" on each disk, concurrently. > Every so often, I get: > > pid 519 (fsck), uid 0: exited on signal 8 (core dumped) This is probably caused by user limitations. Grab a new copy of login.conf from the source tree (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/etc/login.conf), install, and rebuild the capability database. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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