Date: Mon, 02 Oct 1995 23:54:20 -0700 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: rdm@ic.net (Rob Misiak) Cc: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: system crash - help! Message-ID: <199510030654.XAA00225@corbin.Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 03 Oct 95 02:13:52 EDT." <m0t00bw-000gp8C@ic.net>
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>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. :-) Sounds like your nameserver or your network connection went out to lunch. -DG
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