Date: Sun, 03 May 1998 19:17:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Nicole <freelist@webweaver.net> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help...Unexpected inconsistency Message-ID: <XFMail.980503191750.freelist@webweaver.net> In-Reply-To: <19980504082739.Z356@freebie.lemis.com>
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On 03-May-98 Greg Lehey wisely wrote:
> On Sun, 3 May 1998 at 12:54:24 -0700, Nicole wrote:
>>
>> Hello everyone
>> I hope that someone can help me with a weird boot up problem.
>>
>> All of a sudden a new computer I was working on refuses to boot. The error
>> on b
>> ootup is:
>>
>> <SNIP>
>> Starting reboot .. (Or something to that effect)
>> Mounts all drives until....
>>
>> Cannot alloc 8340481 bytes for typemap
>> /dev/rsd1s1c can't check file system
>> Unexpected inconsistency
>>
>> What shell would you like.......(Or something to that effect)
>>
>> At this point I can go into sh and type mount -a and it will mount just
>> fine.
>> Also If I comment out that drive, I can boot up and then mount it.
>>
>> It seems unrelated, but the problem started after I killed a mountd process.
>> The
>> computer paniced and restarted with the problem.
>
> What happens if you boot up with the file system commented out, and
> then run fsck against it? It looks to me like there is some breakage
> in the file system which mount hasn't seen, but which causes fsck to
> go crazy. If that's the case, the safest thing might be to back up
> the file system, re-newfs it, and restore. Beware, though, backing up
> could cause a panic.
>
> Greg
>
Hi Greg
It will boot just dandy. and fsck will find nothing wrong. Monday I will have a
chance to try increasing my defaults for daemon in login.conf. That was the onl
y thing that was changed that I can remember.
Thanks
Nicole
nicole@webweaver.net - http://www.webweaver.net/
webmistress@dangermouse.org - http://www.dangermouse.org/
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