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Subject: Re: fsck locks up SMP system (5.3-REL)
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Marco Beishuizen wrote:
> On stardate Wed, 22 Dec 2004, the wise O. Hartmann entered:
> 
>> Dear Marco.
>> Thanks. In my case, FreeBSD 5.3 dies in single user mode on nearly 
>> each disk activity (it is obviously a FreeBSD 5.3-issue with
>> my ASUS CUR-DLS based system).
>>
>> Please take a look at fsck_ffs(8) man page. There is at the end of the 
>> description of the options an explanation of the lost+find facility. 
>> Obviously orphaned files and directories (and in most cases those 
>> which are expected to be some of them) are gathered and reconnected in 
>> lost+found. My 'periodic' cron-job deletes the contents of lost+found 
>> every 7 days.
>> Oliver
> 
> 
> Well the problem didn't dissappear. I was just checking the filesystem 
> with the midnight commander, and suddenly mc froze in "ufs"-state. Now 
> I'm running fsck again.
> 

What's being logged? Lots of dma errors in /var/log/messages?

Peter.