NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #26/NN_1992_26.iso/spool/comp/unix/ultrix/8160

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From: [e-mail] (A. K. Lee)
Subject: Ultrix 4.2a crashed, PLEASE HELP!!!
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Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 00:52:34 GMT
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Hi, dear ultrix experts,

   I am new to the unix system administaration. For the past 2 weeks,
I have been working on setting up a DECstation 3100 (RISC) running
Ultrix 4.2A without many problems. Unfortunately, my system crashed
yesterday because my stupidity. I logged in as root and was trying
to move a directory from one disk to another using the following
shell script file (called cpdir).

      (cd $1; tar cf - .) | (cd $2; tar xvf - )

while in the root directory, I typed 'cpdir' without giving any
parameters and the nightmare starts. After running the above
command, the messages showed on the screen say something like
...
...
bin/ls size changed
bin/mkdir size changed
bin/cp size changed
...
...

I used 'CTRL c' to quit the shell script as soon as I can once I saw
this happended, but the system was damaged. Afterwards, whenever I use
those commands (i.e. ls, mkdir, cp...), I got a 'segment fault' and then
'core dumped'. I 'shutdown' and turned off the machine and the system
can not be rebooted since then.

Can anyone please tell me what I should do to recover the system with
minimum effort? I want to avoid the process of rebuild the whole system
from scratch as possible as I can. BESIDES, I have a lot data in the disk
that I really can't afford to loss.

Please help, thank you very very much in advance.

aklee