From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 27 23:29:36 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33E2C106564A for ; Thu, 27 Sep 2012 23:29:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsd-src@helfman.org) Received: from mail-da0-f54.google.com (mail-da0-f54.google.com [209.85.210.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE4AD8FC0A for ; Thu, 27 Sep 2012 23:29:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: by dadz9 with SMTP id z9so571638dad.13 for ; Thu, 27 Sep 2012 16:29:35 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=sender:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:x-operating-system :organization:x-living-the-dream:x-pgp-fingerprint:x-pgp-key :user-agent:x-gm-message-state; bh=0KaIJNPZdkC6EOI10UBX4aevI1KOQLgjTPoV6aGoH6Y=; b=KCOwuEESia4LtZ+BJTrRuM1cFw6Zt4KyFNHgpX9gUPwyHm23js9nCMNMPuUoAhWAyX zJn3vT8VMSjTSxdwkiK/bRsU5tZKayK+0izET/QPpip67X1oy6eViJ1U7WMwuYe2wkVE zDcvcRChGeTBnjSmFUdx55kNT6WV+Q79G6nphCDsdgcNHw442v+g3H6sa2ADjaKgewI2 9NuJBNnL7cdhOKHvtfapVBg2RtpOUYzABO+tjevRzdQHdy9lZ6wQF1jAABhFCVMrY2Ya ufXbOcFNsddtPP2DZ/m0KXOOSjuY5osrl08A/4zbv5zKuBApERJpdVNrH9v3e05ru2uL TJ2g== Received: by 10.68.136.138 with SMTP id qa10mr15639557pbb.142.1348788575514; Thu, 27 Sep 2012 16:29:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hatter (adsl-63-196-198-222.dsl.snlo01.pacbell.net. [63.196.198.222]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id bt7sm4441157pab.14.2012.09.27.16.29.33 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 27 Sep 2012 16:29:34 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Jason Helfman Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 16:29:24 -0700 From: Jason Helfman To: Andriy Gapon Message-ID: <20120927232924.GA63444@hatter> References: <20120927165154.GA60691@hatter> <506486C5.6020001@FreeBSD.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <506486C5.6020001@FreeBSD.org> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE-p3 i386 Organization: The FreeBSD Project, http://www.freebsd.org X-Living-The-Dream: I love the SLO Life! X-PGP-FingerPrint: 8E0D C457 9A0F C91C 23F3 0454 2059 9A63 4150 D3DC X-PGP-Key: http://people.freebsd.org/~jgh/jgh.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQkpVUoU0N4RkIe40Q3GXJTHMNvzDoaLgl7eiLD6yitviun5Uk8Rb7f4ZsUujlv2vC6PmkEd Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: laptop keeps crashing, any ideas.... X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 23:29:36 -0000 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