Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 16:29:24 -0700 From: Jason Helfman <jgh@FreeBSD.org> To: Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: laptop keeps crashing, any ideas.... Message-ID: <20120927232924.GA63444@hatter> In-Reply-To: <506486C5.6020001@FreeBSD.org> References: <20120927165154.GA60691@hatter> <506486C5.6020001@FreeBSD.org>
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On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 08:03:01PM +0300, Andriy Gapon thus spake: >on 27/09/2012 19:51 Jason Helfman said the following: >> Hello All, >> >> I was wondering if anyone has any ideas on how I may diagnose/resolve this >> issue. This is running 9.0 amd64 on a Toshiba Satellite A215. Unfortunately, >> any cdrom other than the recovery cdrom doesn't work. And the recovery cd no >> longer will recover. I'm not sure if this is a related issue, or just that >> the harddrive is on it's last leg. It appears to be a filesystem issue, but >> I can't boot it to diagnose any issues. >> >> I am unable to retrieve logs, so here is a photo of the crash. If you open >> in a image viewer, it should appear upright. >> >> http://people.freebsd.org/~jgh/files/photo.JPG > >From a quick glance, your ffs filesystem appears to be badly damaged. >Not sure how you could proceed from here. Maybe force fsck in single user mode. >Try to make a disk image copy and play with it first (or keep it as a backup). > >-- >Andriy Gapon > Turns out that there was some either corrupt file under /tmp that was X related, or had wrong permissions. I had to clear out tmp manually, then run startx to get into X windows. At this point, I remove the bit from /etc/rc.conf that I had put in there to not clean out X related bits from tmp. With all of these steps, I am successfully back on-line. -jgh -- Jason Helfman FreeBSD Committer | http://people.freebsd.org/~jgh | The Power To Serve
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