From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 6 12: 9:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from strategywon.com (strategywon.com [216.22.209.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F29614DA9 for ; Thu, 6 May 1999 12:09:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brianb@strategywon.com) Received: from localhost (brianb@localhost) by strategywon.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id PAA13388; Thu, 6 May 1999 15:10:51 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from brianb@strategywon.com) Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 15:10:51 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Bell To: Doug White Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Infrequent but nasty problem In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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