From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jun 15 10:03:36 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA17472 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 15 Jun 1997 10:03:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de (helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de [141.31.166.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA17467 for ; Sun, 15 Jun 1997 10:03:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from helbig@localhost) by helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA00605; Sun, 15 Jun 1997 19:03:29 +0200 (MET DST) From: Wolfgang Helbig Message-Id: <199706151703.TAA00605@helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de> Subject: Re: Strange things afoot In-Reply-To: from Stephen Roome at "Jun 15, 97 04:02:00 pm" To: steve@visint.co.uk (Stephen Roome) Date: Sun, 15 Jun 1997 19:03:29 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: helbig@MX.BA-Stuttgart.De, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL30 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, > > good hardware tester, and your problems might be hardware caused. So if > > you have about 250 Mbyte left on your /usr partition give it a try and > > see what happens. > > I'm going to wipe the disk from the BIOS and see if that finds any errors. > After that I'll leave it looping make clean and world. (to a typescript!) > > I'll probably also try putting a reboot in at the end of rc.local and then > leaving it starting up and shutting down for a few hours =), it'll give > fsck a chance and it should give it a bit of a workout =) How about changing the flags to fsck in /etc/rc? from `fsck -p' to `fsck -p -f'. That makes fsck check the filesystems even if they are `clean', i. e. the clean flag is set. > > Many Thanks for the help. You are welcome! Wolfgang > > Steve Roome. > > >