Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 20:44:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: root <root@cwo.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HELP!! System core dumps on everything!! Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960731204243.264M-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199607312344.QAA24700@cwo.com>
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On Wed, 31 Jul 1996, root wrote: > I'm in a world of hurt right now. I lost a disk last night that had > the /usr directory mounted on it. After replacing the disk and > attempting to ftp the bin distribution, since I couldn't boot the system > with no /usr files available. Ugly. I sure hope you have current backups. > There are some file systems that say they are not BSD file systems > and I can't edit them using disklabel since vi core dumps. In fact > everything core dumps. Also when I went through the download of the > 'bin' distribution, when it attempted to chgrp and chown on the files, > it gave me a floating point error, then core dumped on every file. Ouch ouch ouch. If I had backups, then I'd just blow everything away, recreate all the partitions, and restore. It looks like the disklabel got munched or worse. I'm not a pro at filesystem restoration so maybe someone can jump in here. > The disk I lost was a SCSI. I replaced it with an EIDE drive, which > is not the root system drive. I don't know if that's causing my problem > or what. I'm not sure what to do next or how to resolve this. Did you check the device configs on the SCSI and IDE controllers? They may be conflicting. > What could be causing the everything to core dump?? Memory fry? Bad data coming off the disk? > Thanks for any help anyone can give as I'm in dire straits right > now. You can say that again. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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