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- From: fridlund@mermaid.micro.umn.edu (Jim Fridlund)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Ctrl-Alt-Del & reboot/halt weirdness
- Message-ID: <FRIDLUND.92Sep8161855@conch.micro.umn.edu>
- Date: 8 Sep 92 22:18:55 GMT
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- In-Reply-To: jwinstea@fenris.claremont.edu's message of 8 Sep 92 18:02:59 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep8.180259.18147@muddcs.claremont.edu> jwinstea@fenris.claremont.edu (Jim Winstead Jr.) writes:
-
- >>Anyway, whenever I do a shutdown or reboot, I get a lockup
- >>instead. The following is the output I get when I use these
- >>commands (I added the indention):
- >>
- >> URGENT: message from the sysadmin:
- >> System going down IMMEDIATELY!
- >>
- >> in:
- >> ... ...
- >>
- >> down IMMEDIATELY!
- >>
- >> in:
- >
- > Where did you get shutdown from? It looks like it may be corrupt, or
- > doing something else strangely. It certainly shouldn't print messages
- > like the above.
-
- I believe this is the mcc-interim package. I get this kind of message
- also. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it hangs the system...
-
- BTW, I just installed MCC package yesterday. Nice package! They
- did a good job with the install scripts. Very easy to install.
- I just wished they included emacs...
-
- QUESTION(s): I'm running a two disk system. One is an Seagate ST251-1
- 40 meg MFM drive with a WD-1003-WA2 controller and a Maxtor XT8380S
- on an Adaptec 1542B. Linux works great on the MFM drive. However,
- I can't seem to use the XT8380 reliably. Everytime I do an Linux fdisk,
- it always ask me to input the disk geometry of the SCSI drive. Every
- time I enter one and reboot, it seems to forget the geometry. The
- disk geometry for this drive is: 8 heads, 53 sect/track, 1632 cylinders.
- fdisk complains about having cylinders greater than 1024 when I entered
- the info above. 'mkfs' or 'mkefs' works without problems in making the
- SCSI partitions, but writing to files on it causes Linux to hang. The
- type of operations I did as a test follows:
-
- # mount /dev/hda3 /usr
- # mount /dev/sda2 /mnt
- # cd /
- # tar cvf - usr | (cd /mnt; tar xvf -)
-
- This works to some point, but then Linux hangs. Did anybody get this
- kind of problems or fixed it? I have the mcc-interim 0.97 pl 2.
- Is this a bug on the race-conditions in the file system? Also after
- rebooting the machine and remounting /dev/sda2, the file system have
- permissions set to ?--------- instead of the normal drwxr-xr-x.
- I assume that the file system is bad? Does the 0.97 pl (3 and 4)
- contain big SCSI improvements? Is it worth the upgrade. Any help
- greatly appreciated.
-
- Thanks Linus and to everyone that made it possible!!!
- --
- Jim Fridlund U of MN - Computer Science
- fridlund@mermaid.micro.umn.edu Institute of Technology
-