From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 21 09:06:52 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA06251 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 21 Jun 1997 09:06:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA06244 for ; Sat, 21 Jun 1997 09:06:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sand.sentex.ca (sand.sentex.ca [206.222.77.6]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA04304 for ; Sat, 21 Jun 1997 09:06:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gravel (gravel.sentex.ca [205.211.165.210]) by sand.sentex.ca (8.8.5/8.8.3) with SMTP id MAA00529; Sat, 21 Jun 1997 12:10:51 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <3.0.2.32.19970621120800.00b56370@sentex.net> X-Sender: mdtancsa@sentex.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.2 (32) Date: Sat, 21 Jun 1997 12:08:00 -0400 To: "John O'Farrell" , questions@freebsd.com From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: (fsck) won't complete? In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970621160136.00f7dcb8@mailhost.pavilion.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >It is on phase 4 that I experience difficulties, it seems to blow up with; >pid 13 (fsck), uid 0: exited on signal 11 ># > >The system has fixed 11 bad blocks and most of the damage seems slight and >repairable, document files and src libraries etc. Does anyone know if it is >possible to continue, or do I need to start all over with a fresh >installation? > >Thank you in advance for any thoughts/suggestions. >John I had a similar problem once, but I dont think it was core dumping on signal 11... Assuming you are in single user mode, and the bad partition is not mounted, try an unlimit first, and then run fsck on the problem partition... ---Mike ********************************************************************** Mike Tancsa (mike@sentex.net) * To do is to be -- Nietzsche Sentex Communications Corp, * To be is to do -- Sartre Cambridge, Ontario * Do be do be do -- Sinatra (http://www.sentex.net/~mdtancsa) *