From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 4 20:43:43 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id UAA16700 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 4 Oct 1995 20:43:43 -0700 Received: from port13.hubbard2.t.ic.net (rob@port13.hubbard2.t.ic.net [152.160.88.13]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id UAA16693 for ; Wed, 4 Oct 1995 20:43:36 -0700 Received: (from rob@localhost) by port13.hubbard2.t.ic.net (8.6.12/8.6.9) id XAA02570; Wed, 4 Oct 1995 23:37:15 -0400 Message-Id: <199510050337.XAA02570@port13.hubbard2.t.ic.net> Subject: Re: system crash - help! To: hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Date: Wed, 4 Oct 1995 23:37:13 -0400 (EDT) Cc: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) In-Reply-To: <199510031806.LAA01509@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Oct 3, 95 11:06:50 am From: "Rob Misiak" Reply-To: rdm@ic.net X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 721 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Terry Lambert ("Re: system crash - help!") wrote: > > > Ok, in case anyone is interested, I fixed the problem. What happened is > > fsck (I think that's what did this) marked some files - including /etc/ttys > > (causing the login problem) and /etc/hosts - character devices. I luckily > > had the 2.0.5-release CD lying around, so I replaced all of the messed up > > files > > What do you mean "marked"... you mean "moved to lost+found"? I hope? > > Unfortunately, no. The files were in the same places that they normally were, except (according to ls -l) they were character devices. It happened to many random files all over the / partition. Fortunately, I kept backups and I was able to restore the files. Rob