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- From: andy@jhunix2.hcf.jhu.edu (Andy Poling)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.bugs
- Subject: Re: Unbelievable bug that didn't happen
- Followup-To: comp.sys.sgi.bugs
- Date: 26 Jan 1993 15:42:58 -0500
- Organization: Homewood Academic Computing, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md, USA
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- Summary: we have a winner!
- Keywords: oh boy...
-
- In article <1jnlejINNp5m@fido.asd.sgi.com> pj@sgi.com writes:
- >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!!!
- >
- >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.
- >
- >I'd suggest you go into single user mode and fsck /. Expect some
- >things such as DUP blocks.
-
- Paul takes the prize. Each of the copies of the scribbled mtab that I had
- saved for posterity showed up as BAD/DUP in phase 1 of the fsck.
-
- Of course, how they got that way in the first place is a mystery since I
- kept creating new mtab files which kept having this happen to them.
-
- Thanks Paul!
-
- -Andy
-
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