Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 13:01:26 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Roelof Osinga <roelof@eboa.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Have crashed, won't travel Message-ID: <19990304130126.B441@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <36DDEFFD.A4DB4978@eboa.com>; from Roelof Osinga on Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 03:29:17AM %2B0100 References: <36DCB59E.F16D5539@eboa.com> <19990303195632.B441@lemis.com> <36DDBFEB.86D89D20@eboa.com> <19990304095813.I441@lemis.com> <36DDEFFD.A4DB4978@eboa.com>
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On Thursday, 4 March 1999 at 3:29:17 +0100, Roelof Osinga wrote: > Greg Lehey wrote: >> >> You write: >> >> After both crashes at least one filesystem was reported damaged. >> >> What was the message? > > Ah, that message. Sorry, I didn't write it down. Hadn't decided yet to > *not* to re-install again, so why bother. One reason might be because it's harmless. > However I am quite new to FreeBSD, maybe these (boot) messages get stored > and kept for a few revisions like the maillog? They're in /var/log/messages, and also (just the boot messages) in /var/run/dmesg.boot. You can also display the contents of the message buffer with dmesg, but after the machine's been up for a while it gets overwritten with other messages. > Also I hadn't realized expert help would be so readily available to > analyze such messages. Therefore I wasn't inquiring into that aspect > of the situation but as to what the effect of a thing like 'make > world' would be. > > If it rebuilds all binaries then I can rest assure that all rebuild > binaries will be reasonably correct. Because barring very odd source > mutilations a corrupt source file will fail to compile. That would > leave the configuration files. But those are mostly textual and > corruption will normally result in complaints from the program that > needs it. The kind of damage done to a file system is usually in the structure rather than in the individual files. A make world wouldn't do much to help there. In general, if it complains about problems, but still comes up, it has solved those problems. > So to my thinking a 'make world' would provide a means to verify > the correctness of the system. What I am wondering now is how > correct my thinking is. Remember, I've never 'made world' <g>. You might find it interesting to try. It won't solve the (possible) problem at hand. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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