Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 15:10:51 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Bell <brianb@strategywon.com> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Infrequent but nasty problem Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905061505540.13378-100000@strategywon.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9905061142260.25986-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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On Thu, 6 May 1999, Doug White wrote: > On Thu, 6 May 1999, Brian Bell wrote: > > > Hi everybody, > > My 3.1 FreeBSD system has run well for some time but this morning I sat > > down to my machine and it had crashed during the night. I saw that it had > > run fsck fine. I logged in and got xwindows running with no problems > > until I tried to run one of the programs that the machine was running at > > the crash (rc5 proj). Instant crash of the whole system. > > Can you give more details on these crashes? Do you get ay error messages? > Does it happen to non-X applications? > > > error of the pager. So I am now booting kernel.old and running fcsk > > to find out what is crapping things out. It keeps just saying disk > > dirty rerun fsck. I have done that now 6 times. What do I need to do > > to start stabilizing my system? I am afraid to start anything do to > > it might just hose my system and that would hurt:) Let me know what > > more details you want. thnxs > > Sounds like you've thrown a disk. > > To do a proper fsck > > 1. During boot hit a key to the the prompt, then type > > boot -s > > 2. Hit return when prompted. > 3. Run > > fsck -y -a > > Keep running this until you get no errors. Then reboot by typing 'reboot' > and you should be back up. If it keeps getting errors, you may need to > replace your disk. > > Doug White > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org > > Hi again, Doug thanks for the help. It cleaned up my hard drive but problems still loom. When i boot the kernel I get Fatal Trap Error 12 A big paragraph of info. Like 0x30 and Supervisor write page, not present. I can boot into the kernel.old and seems to be okay since i was able to run fsck. (which does not have a -a switch) I have not tried xwindows yet for fear that i will hose my last good kernel. How should I now proceed ? From the desk of Brian Bell Contact me at brianb@strategywon.com or (602) 231-0918 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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