From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 14 22:38:01 2005 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 F065716A41F for ; Wed, 14 Sep 2005 22:38:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dennyboy@cableone.net) Received: from S1.cableone.net (s1.cableone.net [24.116.0.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 718AD43D46 for ; Wed, 14 Sep 2005 22:38:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dennyboy@cableone.net) Received: from dualman.cableone.net (unverified [24.119.190.179]) by S1.cableone.net (CableOne SMTP Service S1) with ESMTP id 31230683 for multiple; Wed, 14 Sep 2005 15:38:06 -0700 Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 17:37:40 -0500 (CDT) From: Denny White To: Erik Norgaard In-Reply-To: <4312C7DD.2000305@locolomo.org> Message-ID: <20050914171840.E33095@dualman.cableone.net> References: <20050828085725.K11358@dualman.cableone.net> <4312C7DD.2000305@locolomo.org> X-GPG-PUBLIC_KEY: http://wwwkeys.nl.pgp.net X-GPG-FINGERPRINT: D0A9 AD44 1F10 E09E 0E67 EC25 CB44 F2E5 1644 E79A MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-IP-stats: Incoming Last 18, First 132, in=63, out=0, spam=0 X-External-IP: 24.119.190.179 X-Abuse-Info: Send abuse complaints to abuse@cableone.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fsck on corrupted / 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, 14 Sep 2005 22:38:02 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Aug 29 Erik Norgaard boldly spake forth the following: >> > Denny White wrote: > >> The problem started with a power outage before I >> had the box in question on a ups. I switched it >> to the ups and ran fsck and thought all was well. >> Then I started having periodic reboots. After the >> last one, the system would crash about the time >> fsck was checking pathnames. Have tried running >> fsck on / from both single user mode and from the >> fixit live cd. Same thing, crashes. Any help/ideas >> greatly appreciated. > > If you can, try to boot mounting / read-only, at least you shouldn't get disk > errors on that label then. But this may just be your disk degrading from bad > to worse untill it's final death :-( > > Do you get any READ_DMA or WRITE_DMA errors? I remember that there has been a > lot of threads regarding disk errors the last month, try searching the > archive for hints. > > For example you should be able to lower throughput using ata_control, this > may reduce problems. > > Cheers, Erik > Very sorry for not answering earlier. Evacuated Biloxi 8/30 for hurricane katrina. Back home now. Quite a mess here. I was able to finally run fsck successfully, using a fbsd 5.3 live cd in single user mode. Never had any success previous to that, just booting the 5.4 system into single user & doing fsck. The box has been running ok since I got back to the house and didn't give me me any further problems until I started running my update script again, which really just does some simple update stuff. Cvsup's src, ports, & docs; installs new docs; fetches new ports index & runs portsdb -u; runs portversion -l "<" & portaudit -Fda & exits. Only thing changed at all on the system is the docs that are updated & the updated portsdb. Have had no WRITE_DMA or READ_DMA errors. Only time anything got scrambled up was after the initial power outage that started the problems, but fsck reported everything salvaged & marked clean. I thought best & simplest way to check for hardware problems, since the box isn't a production system & is mostly just for learning & surfing, was to run a live cd on it for a couple of days and see if I get any reboots.? Definitely mount the h/d's too, while doing so. Thanks for any further thoughts &ideas on the issue. Sorry again for the late answer. GnuPG key : 0x1644E79A | http://wwwkeys.nl.pgp.net Fingerprint: D0A9 AD44 1F10 E09E 0E67 EC25 CB44 F2E5 1644 E79A -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFDKKZAy0Ty5RZE55oRAqTAAJ4uZDtt5ciq4dN04jd8ZHf/m5UpngCbB27u ggMMzu8FEITfcLpspeDWA34= =G7+H -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----