Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 15:02:44 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz> To: Pete Christie <christie@idsi.net> Cc: "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: (newbie)/usr file system has UNEXPECTED INCONSISTANICES Message-ID: <20010522150243.A40939@itouchnz.itouch> In-Reply-To: <3B09CF4B.6DEE4BED@idsi.net>; from christie@idsi.net on Mon, May 21, 2001 at 10:30:36PM -0400 References: <3B09CF4B.6DEE4BED@idsi.net>
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On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 10:30:36PM -0400, Pete Christie wrote:
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> I was mucking around with Gnome (and enlightenment) (nothing to deep,
> just poking around the typical 'user' stuff, I wasn't messing with any
> .conf files or anything) on a relatively new install of v4.2 and when I
> tried to exit and the system locked up, I tried the Ctrl-Alt-BackSpace,
> but the machine rebooted and now I get an error message that /usr can't
> be mounted because of 'UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCIES'. While I'd like to
> get to the root (ha! my first -nix humor) of the lockup, I'm gonna need
> to have /usr back if at all possible. Now I understand I'm supposed to
> include some log files and such, but at this point I could spend a few
> evenings just figuring out how to get this info over to my Win98 machine
> to include it in this message, so please forgive me . . .
See if you can boot single user. This is done by hitting the spacebar
when the countdown to boot begins; and then enter
boot -s
This should bring you to single user mode. Accept the default /bin/sh
as your root shell. After you're in, try fsck'ing /usr
# fsck -y /usr
Depending on how bad the damage is, it may ask you to redo this again.
If all goes well, you may be able to go multiuser with a repaired
/usr. To exit single-user mode, a Control-D or
# exit
will start the multiuser boot process.
--
Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz>
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