From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 16 14:26:55 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id OAA08972 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 16 Dec 1996 14:26:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts12-line3.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.135]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id OAA08965 for ; Mon, 16 Dec 1996 14:26:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.2/8.6.12) with SMTP id OAA00527; Mon, 16 Dec 1996 14:25:54 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 14:25:54 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: "Keith A. Fredericks" cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: file system problems In-Reply-To: <32B5B4EA.336C@kellysoftware.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 16 Dec 1996, Keith A. Fredericks wrote: > 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. Is anything appearing on the console? It sounds like a bad disk, cable, or controller. Are you shutting down the machine with shutdown(8) when you turn it off? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major