From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 28 10:30:39 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FCB1106566C for ; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 10:30:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from admin@prnet.org) Received: from jailfr.prnet.org (fr.prnet.org [IPv6:2001:41d0:2:a37a::1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE2F98FC18 for ; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 10:30:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from www.prnet.org (jailfr.prnet.org [188.165.216.122]) by jailfr.prnet.org (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p6SAUaHt065660; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 12:30:36 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from admin@prnet.org) Received: from 212.24.212.169 (SquirrelMail authenticated user admin@prnet.org) by www.prnet.org with HTTP; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 12:30:36 +0200 Message-ID: <752d3bc32283c9955f56b7320f700b1e.squirrel@www.prnet.org> In-Reply-To: <4E312F4F.3090904@gmx.com> References: <23d247b71b7fbb812daa6217121c9452.squirrel@www.prnet.org> <4E312F4F.3090904@gmx.com> Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 12:30:36 +0200 From: admin@prnet.org To: "Nikos Vassiliadis" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.21 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: disappearing files X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 10:30:39 -0000 Hi, Dmesg returns no error. Also smartctl returns no errors. I will wait for other suggestion before unmounting the volume in this machine for the case someone else has another suggestion what to check for, because it might be that by umounting and remounting, it will take again a few month for the problem to reappear. On the other machine that was having the problem, dmesg and smartctl also returned no errors. I rebooted the machine and started fsck which also returned no error. On remounting, everything was working again. Bye, David Arendt > On 7/28/2011 10:15 AM, admin@prnet.org wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I am using FreeBSD 8.2 with an UFS filesystem containing a jail. I do a >> tar of the whole jail every night. Suddenly after a few weeks of >> operation, tar complains about being unable to stat >> /usr/lib/libmilter.so. >> >>> From inside the jail: >> >> ls /usr/lib | grep "^libmilter.so$" returns "libmilter.so" >> ls /usr/lib/libmilter.so returns "ls: libmilter.so: No such file or >> directory" >> ls -l /usr/lib> /dev/null returns "ls: libmilter.so: No such file or >> directory" >> >> Trying to access the file from the main system gives the same result. >> >> A reboot returns everything to normal. >> >> Exactly the same also appeared on another machine some time ago, the >> only >> difference was that it appeared on another file. >> >> Does anyone know what can cause this problem ? > > File system corruption would cause such behavior. And/Or perhaps > something is wrong with the underlying disk device. > > I would search the logs for messages indicating that the storage > medium is failing. Does dmesg contain anything related? > > I would also unmount and fsck the file system. > > HTH, Nikos > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >