From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 31 20:45:03 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA24525 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 31 Jul 1996 20:45:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts11-line15.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.130]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA24513 for ; Wed, 31 Jul 1996 20:44:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id UAA00352; Wed, 31 Jul 1996 20:44:45 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 20:44:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: root cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HELP!! System core dumps on everything!! In-Reply-To: <199607312344.QAA24700@cwo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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