From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 29 6: 6:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CB6B37B400; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 06:06:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bilver.wjv.com (user38.net339.fl.sprint-hsd.net [65.40.24.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE13E43E77; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 06:06:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bv@bilver.wjv.com) Received: from bilver.wjv.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bilver.wjv.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g7TD6Tkv020266; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 09:06:29 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bv@bilver.wjv.com) Received: (from bv@localhost) by bilver.wjv.com (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g7TD6Phl020265; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 09:06:25 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 09:06:25 -0400 From: Bill Vermillion To: shubha mr Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD GOD,save me! Message-ID: <20020829130625.GB19800@wjv.com> Reply-To: bv@wjv.com References: <20020829044336.34942.qmail@web14605.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020829044336.34942.qmail@web14605.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i Organization: W.J.Vermillion / Orlando - Winter Park Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 )))) )))) :::: )))) :::: )))) ---- )))) ---- )))) :::: )))) :::: )))) )))) )))) 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 -- Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message