From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 26 18:00:49 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA20044 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 26 Dec 1997 18:00:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from jester.ti.com (jester.ti.com [192.94.94.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA20039 for ; Fri, 26 Dec 1997 18:00:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from vagner@spdc.ti.com) Received: from tilde.csc.ti.com ([157.170.1.149]) by jester.ti.com (8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA22542 for ; Fri, 26 Dec 1997 20:00:16 -0600 (CST) Received: from spdc.ti.com (ox.spdc.ti.com [192.226.26.51]) by tilde.csc.ti.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA22401 for ; Fri, 26 Dec 1997 20:00:14 -0600 (CST) Received: from epcot.spdc.ti.com (epcot [192.226.26.53]) by spdc.ti.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA08520 for ; Fri, 26 Dec 1997 20:00:12 -0600 (CST) Received: (from vagner@localhost) by epcot.spdc.ti.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA02813 for questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 26 Dec 1997 20:00:12 -0600 (CST) From: George Vagner Message-Id: <199712270200.UAA02813@epcot.spdc.ti.com> Subject: wayward program To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 26 Dec 1997 20:00:12 -0600 (CST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk The other night i was looking thru the files in the /usr/X11R6/bin directory and running them in sequential order to see if i liked them, there was this program that i dont know the name of but when I double clicked it my screen turned red, then green and back to red and did sort of a flicker so i tried to stop it with a control c nope so i did a ctrl+alt+backspace still kept running so i did a ctrl+alt+delete and it kept running for about 20 more seconds until i saw the bios message of my video card and reboot proceeded until it got to the part where it checks the drive and my drive was all tore up! it had wrong sizes for files, superblock not set, and some other stuff that it said. so i ran fsck as requested and tried to fix it all and it said it did but i ran fsck again tonight and got more errors which it fixed again. i am now unable to run nmbd or smbd now even after i reinstalled the port. i type nmbd and it just comes back with the > prompt like it ran and exited but a look at "top" shows its not running. do i have to completely wipe out the disk and redo everything? -- Laszlo G. Vagner Texas Instruments 13570 N. Central expressway M/S 3703 Dallas, Texas 75243 (972)995-4297 (972)598-5217 Pager Email vagner@tee eye dot com