From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 18 02:40:02 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1311F16A4B3 for ; Sat, 18 Oct 2003 02:40:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from woozle.rinet.ru (woozle.rinet.ru [195.54.192.68]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC70B43FBF for ; Sat, 18 Oct 2003 02:40:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marck@rinet.ru) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woozle.rinet.ru (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h9I9dwLq080212; Sat, 18 Oct 2003 13:39:58 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from marck@rinet.ru) Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 13:39:58 +0400 (MSD) From: Dmitry Morozovsky To: Dan Langille In-Reply-To: <3F8FBBC7.10222.304EFA2@localhost> Message-ID: <20031018133732.I79667@woozle.rinet.ru> References: <3F8FBBC7.10222.304EFA2@localhost> X-NCC-RegID: ru.rinet MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: erorrs from spec_getpages X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 09:40:02 -0000 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 *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------