Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 14:05:02 -0500 From: Phil <ReachMe@Syne-Post.com> To: Vince Vielhaber <vev@michvhf.com>, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: A boot up problem. Message-ID: <36E9655E.6E31F858@Syne-Post.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903121313580.18015-100000@paprika.michvhf.com>
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Well, There was only one installation of FreeBSD on this box which is 2.2.7-stable. As an update they just had their circuit put in and he manually shutdown the BSD box before turning it off. After turning it back on the system came up normally and did not have such an error. here's the specific error as noted in some communications with the other sysadmin; snip!!!! ----- > 8) > echo "Automatic file system check failed... help!" > exit 1 > ;; That's the one (#8). I saw this happen on one of our servers too, yesterday morning, and I had to manually fsck the disk. The fsck manual page explains it, but I don't know yet what kind of error it encounters that makes it ask for manual intervention. There might not be any remedy except to make sure the system is always shut down properly. snip!!!!! ------ Ok so hopefully this extra info will be all that we need (Yeah Right) Phil Vince Vielhaber wrote: > On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Phil wrote: > > > Geeez the ISP where my box is located keeps having power outages on their floor > > from somebody down the hall. > > > > And so they restart the machine (Fortunately they also run FreeBSD) and it won't > > automatically CLEAN the disks and it just stops. > > The sysadmin there manually cleans the disk and then it continues. > > > > Here's a message form him as he is probably more clear than I; > > > > Doubly so because your unix > > system also seems to not want to automatically check the filesystems after > > an improper shutdown, which keeps it from finishing booting until > > it gets some manual intervention. I'm really curious as to why that is, > > and I'd actually like to look into it sometime. > > Was this machine upgraded from an older version of FreeBSD? Take a look > at the fstab entries and see what format their in. Newer versions of > FreeBSD won't complete on a dirty boot with old style fstab entries. > > Vince. > -- > ========================================================================== > Vince Vielhaber -- KA8CSH email: vev@michvhf.com flame-mail: /dev/null > # include <std/disclaimers.h> TEAM-OS2 > Online Campground Directory http://www.camping-usa.com > Online Giftshop Superstore http://www.cloudninegifts.com > ========================================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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