Totally hosed up filesystem..wtf?

Jeff Mohler speedtoys.racing at gmail.com
Sat Oct 28 20:18:54 UTC 2006


Appears the issue is in the IBM servers RAID.

Its a RAID1, and the mirror raid is totally hosed according to the
machine bios, and that hung up the primary side of the mirror when the
backup side went tango uniform.



On 10/27/06, Derek Ragona <derek at computinginnovations.com> wrote:
>
>  reboot single user, cd /var/log and delete anything you can there.  Then
> try fsck.
>
>          -Derek
>
>
>  At 07:26 PM 10/27/2006, Jeff Mohler wrote:
>
> So..last night im workin away, and then the machine gets slow, then
>  stops responding to anything.
>
>  I can ping it, but no telnet, MailScanner has detected a possible fraud
> attempt from "www...anything." claiming to be www...anything. Hung hard.
> Last thing
>  I saw in a make buildworld was a 'cant write to filesystem' error..or
>  something like that but not a 'no room on device' error.
>
>  Have my remote helper power cycle it, as he cant get in either.
>
>  Comes up asking for single user shell, get in, and fsck -y fails with:
>
>  fsck_ufs: cannot alloc [random # of bytes here]
>
>  Searching tells me in dead.
>
>  Running 6.1.
>
>
>  Help??
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