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- Subject: Re: A/UX 3 freezes when fsck fixes things!
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- Date: 30 Jul 92 17:58:08 GMT
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- cgarnett@amhux1.amherst.edu (Craig Garnett '87) writes:
- : Anyone know about this one? I've got 3.0 running on a Mac II, connected
- : to the rest of the world by an ethernet card, so I can telnet to the
- : machine from our VAX. Occasionally, when I'm feeling bored, I'll log on
- : as superuser and do an "fsck /dev/dsk/c0d0s0", and invariably, if the
- : system finds anything wrong with the disk, it will come back at the end
- : of the repair process with "File system modified, rebooting A/UX!"
- :
- : This would be fine and dandy, except it doesn't work. Whenever it does
- : this, I come look at the screen on the Mac and it's displaying this
- : black and white checkerboardish pattern with "panic: ifree: freeing free
- : inode" on the screen. Pressing the restart key makes the Mac reboot,
- : start A/UX, and all is well.
- :
- : Is this supposed to be happening? It seems odd to me...if it turns out
- : that one just can't restart the Mac unless logged into the console, I'll
- : disable it, but it's still a pain.
- :
- : Thanks!
- : -Craig
-
- Assuming that c0d0s0 is your root partition, I think the answer is that
- you should not be trying to fix it with anything but the stand-alone fsck.
-
- Most likely, the errors it fixes are not real anyway, just a function of
- the system being up and running.
-
- On my IIfx running 3.0beta the only time fsck finds errors is after a power
- failure. It has never crashed while I have kept from kicking the power
- switch on the surge protector (sometimes I am less than gracefull).
-
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- Greg Berryman gpb@gpb-mac.sps.mot.com
- Motorola Inc. Austin Texas
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