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[Dmitry Morozovsky]

On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, Dan Langille wrote:

DL> Hi,
DL>
DL> Last night I did a buildworld.  This morning I found this:
DL>
DL> $ cd
DL> -bash: cd: /home/dan: Device not configured
DL>
DL> looking at /, it was empty.
DL>
DL> $ ls /home/
DL> ls: /home/: Device not configured
DL>
DL> Looking at the console, I found this:
DL>
DL> http://beta.freebsddiary.org/tmp/mtwenty-console.jpg
DL>
DL> I rebooted.  The system couldn't find the disk.  I replaced the IDE
DL> drive.  Still no disk.  Checked the BIOS.  The disk wasn't listed so
DL> I added it.  I also deactivated the floppy because it had been
DL> removed yesterday.
DL>
DL> A reboot was fine.  fsck went OK.  All seems well now.
DL>
DL> I'm doing another buildworld, building some ports, and running cvsup
DL> on my ports tree to create disk activity.
DL>
DL> When that finishes, I'm going to run the manufacturer's test program
DL> on the drive to see if any problems are found.
DL>
DL> Was this a hardware failure?  System failure?  Any recommended
DL> courses of action?

I'd bet a couple of (insert your preferred currency symbol here ;-) that you
disc has been failed at your swap area; then, when pager decided to bring back
(swapin) some pages it previously swapped out, it complaints.

Time to check whether you had backup of good quality ;-)


Sincerely,
D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
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