Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 09:06:25 -0400 From: Bill Vermillion <bv@wjv.com> To: shubha mr <shubha_mr@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD GOD,save me! Message-ID: <20020829130625.GB19800@wjv.com> In-Reply-To: <20020829044336.34942.qmail@web14605.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20020829044336.34942.qmail@web14605.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 05:43 , Men gasped, women fainted, and small
children were reduced to tears as shubha mr confessed to all:
> Here is the tragic story!
> When I booted my BSD machine this morning,it said
> Automatic file system check failed...........help!
> Enter full pathname of the shell or RETURN for bin/sh
> I entered /bin/csh (I was not sure tho')
> Cannot open /et/termcap
> Using dumb terminal settings.
Since you are in single user mode you will see a lot of things are
not processed. I typcally set TERM=cons25; export TERM as the
first thing so I can use 'less' to view things. Pressing return
for /bin/sh is probably best if you need to execute any scripts
with are not compatible with /bin/csh.
> It does not even enter /usr/src..It says no such file
> or directory..
Type mount and you will see only / is mounted.
Run fsck from the prompt and when it finished type mount -a
and you should see everthing.
Not a tragic story. Happens when something gets shut down by
a panic or power-failure or someone pressing what used to be called
THE BIG RED SWITCH. The system did not have time to write the FS
information before halting.
I've only lost 1 or 2 files in the past 7 years of running BSD.
That's a far better average than most other Unix OSes which I've
used.
> Good god,save me!
Not that serious. fsck should save you. We'll leave divine
intervention for realy serious problems
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And it's not really a freebsd-net problem as you don't have
networks running in single user mode - unless you force them.
Bill
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