From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 16 12:45:17 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id MAA01199 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 16 Dec 1996 12:45:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from elvis.kellysoftware.com (root@elvis.kellysoftware.com [206.20.234.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id MAA01193 for ; Mon, 16 Dec 1996 12:45:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from magick.kellysoftware.com (magick.kellysoftware.com [206.20.234.131]) by elvis.kellysoftware.com (8.7.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA17831 for ; Mon, 16 Dec 1996 15:49:55 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <32B5B4EA.336C@kellysoftware.com> Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 15:45:30 -0500 From: "Keith A. Fredericks" Reply-To: keith@kellysoftware.com Organization: Kelly Music & Entertainment X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: file system problems Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, I installed 2.1.6 about a week ago. After running fine for a couple of days, I was in X and things apparently started to deteriorate. I lost my shell in /usr/local/bin and various X11R6 executables were no longer executable. I found stuff like my bin directory and dozens more files (the ones I touched?) were all zero length files. I manually fsck'd. It looked like mainly directories were gone. I decided to reinstall. And, it happened again. This time, I was in X playing a music CD and bringing up Netscape. The cursor locked and the screen blanked and the machine rebooted. I had many bad files in the manual fsck of my /usr file system. I have a NEC p133 w/Aurora motherboard with 48M RAM that includes the S3 Trio64V+ and the Vibra 16 chips. I have a Toshiba XM-5401B SCSI CD-ROM drive and a Micropolis 4.2G AV SCSI drive and the Adaptec 2940 controller. Also, I have the 3com 3c590 pci ethernet card. What is killing my file system? How can I prevent this? I will try to figure this out, but I thought someone might have run into this and can tell me what to change. -keith -- Keith A. Fredericks keith@kellysoftware.com Kelly Music & Entertainment 630 Fifth Ave. Rockefeller Ctr. NY, NY 10020 800-50KELLY 212-332-2475 fax:212-332-2479