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- From: pj@sam.wpd.sgi.com (Paul Jackson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.bugs
- Subject: Re: Unbelievable bug that didn't happen
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 02:16:51 GMT
- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Research & Development
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- References: <1jneleINN2tb@jhunix2.hcf.jhu.edu>
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- Keywords: oh boy...
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- In article <1jneleINN2tb@jhunix2.hcf.jhu.edu>, andy@jhunix2.hcf.jhu.edu (Andy Poling) writes:
- |> While I was tracking this bug down, it happened -- I may have even made it
- |> happen - I dunno. The problem is this: even though the mtab file had been
- |> scribbled in since I had last fixed it, the modification time of the file
- |> had not changed!!!
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- Looks to me like your mtab and /etc/wtmp files are cohabitating. That
- is, they are both using a particular block of the file system.
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- I'd suggest you go into single user mode and fsck /. Expect some
- things such as DUP blocks.
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- Software Production Engineer
- Paul Jackson (pj@sgi.com), x1373
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