Discovering File System Corruption

[Ceri Davies]

On 10 Jan 2006, at 14:26, Bret Walker wrote:

> I have a 6.0-RELEASE-p1 box with a GENERIC kerbnel that I'm having  
> some
> trouble with.
>
> I recently reconstituted the machine from being a 5.4 box. I didn't
> upgrade, I reinstalled.
>
> When I was trying to install tripwire, kept getting this message:
> "./bin/i386-unknown-freebsd_r/siggen missing. Build did not complete
> successfully.
> *** Error code 1"
>
> I CVSupped a few times, even deleting the tripwire directory  
> completely
> and letting CVSup re-add it. I finally fixed the problem by copying  
> the
> missing file from another box.
>
> The maintainer of the the port wrote to me:
> " The missing files were missing from the distfile extraction, not  
> the port.
> The distfile failed to extract properly. That indicates that either  
> tar
> failed (unlikely) or that you have some kind of filesystem problem.  
> You
> have a problem much more serious than a mere port that failed to  
> build."
>
> I have run fsck in single user mode many times, each time coming  
> back clean.
> I ran fsck -f -p, to make sure I wasn't having any problems like  
> this (
> http://freebsd.rambler.ru/bsdmail/freebsd-current_2003/ 
> msg04802.html ).
>
> How can I determine what is going on? Do I have filesystem corruption,
> or is something else going on?

Try to extract the distfile that you downloaded and see if it is  
corrupted or incomplete.

Ceri
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