Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 13:39:58 +0400 (MSD) From: Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru> To: Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: erorrs from spec_getpages Message-ID: <20031018133732.I79667@woozle.rinet.ru> In-Reply-To: <3F8FBBC7.10222.304EFA2@localhost> References: <3F8FBBC7.10222.304EFA2@localhost>
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On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, Dan Langille wrote: DL> Hi, DL> DL> Last night I did a buildworld. This morning I found this: DL> DL> $ cd DL> -bash: cd: /home/dan: Device not configured DL> DL> looking at /, it was empty. DL> DL> $ ls /home/ DL> ls: /home/: Device not configured DL> DL> Looking at the console, I found this: DL> DL> http://beta.freebsddiary.org/tmp/mtwenty-console.jpg DL> DL> I rebooted. The system couldn't find the disk. I replaced the IDE DL> drive. Still no disk. Checked the BIOS. The disk wasn't listed so DL> I added it. I also deactivated the floppy because it had been DL> removed yesterday. DL> DL> A reboot was fine. fsck went OK. All seems well now. DL> DL> I'm doing another buildworld, building some ports, and running cvsup DL> on my ports tree to create disk activity. DL> DL> When that finishes, I'm going to run the manufacturer's test program DL> on the drive to see if any problems are found. DL> DL> Was this a hardware failure? System failure? Any recommended DL> courses of action? I'd bet a couple of (insert your preferred currency symbol here ;-) that you disc has been failed at your swap area; then, when pager decided to bring back (swapin) some pages it previously swapped out, it complaints. Time to check whether you had backup of good quality ;-) Sincerely, D.Marck [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Dmitry Morozovsky --- D.Marck --- Wild Woozle --- marck@rinet.ru *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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