Date: Tue, 04 Mar 1997 18:09:52 -0800 From: "Douglas C. Garrick" <douggarrick@worldnet.att.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: bad trouble with devices Message-ID: <331CD5F0.2A42@worldnet.att.net>
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I am still trying to recover from the crash caused by the errors in sysconfig and ttys. What happened was, when i had to pull an emergency shutdown i damaged the file system. when i finally got everything put back together where the system would boot i needed to fsck all the file systems. Well i booted from a spare drive with a root file system on it and fscked the original root file system. Well i apparently answered yes to some questions that i should have said no to because i have some /dev device with absurd attributes like owner = 1982437654 group = 4887652399 and major minor #s that are just as absurd. The big problem is that i can't remove those files (specifically ptyp4 and ptypf. In X i 'can't find available ptys for child process' but there are devices available after the absurd one's. It almost seems like the parent process won't look past those bad devices. I am right about that? What can I do to remove these files? I have tried to re MAKEDEV the ptys and it seems to work, at least it doesn't complain. I thought i would try to outsmart it and create users/groups with the names listed by ls -al but the names are invalid due to length. I think i need professional help :-) (read into that what you will.) thanks in advance. Doug Garrick Bridger Coal Company Rock Springs, Wyoming
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