Date: Tue, 3 Oct 1995 02:13:52 -0400 (EDT) From: rdm@ic.net (Rob Misiak) To: hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: system crash - help! Message-ID: <m0t00bw-000gp8C@ic.net>
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Hi, I am running 2.2-current (but I don't think that's the cause of my problem; see below) and I logged out of a vty, and the system just hung. The hard disk light was flickering, but I did not hear the disk spin at all. I ended up doing a cold reset, and my filesystems ended up a mess. I booted into single-user mode, and restored backups of /etc and /usr/local/etc (in case any of the files were damaged) and ran fsck, etc. I then rebooted, and after the disks were mounted (but right before root was re-mounted for read-write) the system hung again. I hit ^C, and I guess skipped whatever was hanging, and went on with the rest of the rc files. The same thing happened with sendmail, so I hit ^C again. And finally, the system hung once more when I was supposed to get the login prompt. Obviously, I couldn't do anything here. I tried also booting 2.0.5 generic and 2.1.0-something-snap kernels, but the same thing happened. Any idea what caused this, and more importantly, how to fix it? The few times that the system did crash before nothing like this happened. At the moment I'm stuck in single-user mode using cu to log into a shell account, so naturally I'm eager to get the system back to they way it used to be. :-) Rob
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