From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 27 22:53:19 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FF7A16A4CE for ; Tue, 27 Jul 2004 22:53:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mailout.stusta.mhn.de (mailout.stusta.mhn.de [141.84.69.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A8CF643D60 for ; Tue, 27 Jul 2004 22:53:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from akio@despammed.com) Received: (qmail 926 invoked from network); 25 Jul 2004 22:12:47 -0000 Received: from r065048.stusta.swh.mhn.de (HELO ?10.150.65.48?) (10.150.65.48) by mailhub.stusta.mhn.de with SMTP; 25 Jul 2004 22:12:47 -0000 Message-ID: <4104304A.5060004@despammed.com> Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 00:12:26 +0200 From: Lutz Petersen User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7 (Windows/20040616) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: R/W mount of / denied X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 22:53:19 -0000 After a system crash (e.g. a power failure), the terminal-less FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE I run does not boot up properly any more. Here is an excerpt from /var/log/messages: Jul 25 20:18:04 server kernel: Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a Jul 25 20:18:04 server kernel: WARNING: / was not properly dismounted Jul 25 20:18:04 server kernel: WARNING: R/W mount of / denied. Filesystem is not clean - run fsck Jul 25 20:18:04 server kernel: WARNING: R/W mount of / denied. Filesystem is not clean - run fsck Jul 25 20:18:04 server kernel: WARNING: /home was not properly dismounted Jul 25 20:18:04 server kernel: WARNING: /tmp was not properly dismounted Jul 25 20:18:04 server kernel: WARNING: /usr was not properly dismounted Jul 25 20:18:04 server kernel: WARNING: /var was not properly dismounted As a result, BIND does not start up any more, which leaves my FreeBSD box in an unusable state (no internet connection, no network connections that use DNS). I did not experience this behaviour with 4-STABLE. What's wrong here? The other day I read about a misconfiguration of /etc/fstab (wrong fs_passno), which prevented FreeBSD from doing the usual consistency checking at startup time. My fstab is looking fine however. Any help is greatly appreciated, Lutz