fsck failed after hard crash

[Larry Rosenman]

--On Sunday, September 14, 2003 19:02:17 +0200 Sebastian Ssmoller 
<sebastian.ssmoller at gmx.net> wrote:

> Am Son, 2003-09-14 um 17.49 schrieb Larry Rosenman:
>> I'm seeing similar messages from fsck:
>>
>> unexpected soft-update inconsistency, unable to write block, etc.
>>
>> going back to my 9/9/2003 "good" kernel, it works.
>
> i tried to use my old kernel; build with sources from fbsd 5.1 release).
> i rebooted the system and started fsck -y /usr again but the same
> problems occur :(
>
> now there are two possibilities i guess:
> - something in userland is broken too
> - my ufs2 is really dead
I'm using ufs1, FWIW, and my userland is from  september 9 as well.
So, either 5.1R is too far back or you are in trouble.

FWIW.


>
> any ideas ?
>
> seb
>>
>> so I think SOMETHING broke here.
>>
>> LER
>>
>>
>> --On Sunday, September 14, 2003 08:30:51 -0700 Steve Kargl
>> <sgk at troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote:
>>
>> > On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 11:42:21AM +0200, Sebastian Ssmoller wrote:
>> >> i did cvsup for /usr/src yesterday and did a build world.
>> >> i also build a new kernel without all these debugging things.
>> >
>> > If you're running FreeBSD-current, I would suggest that
>> > you put the debugging options back into your kernel.
>> >
>> >> i rebooted the system and everything went fine first but then
>> >> i tried to recompile pf_freebsd and the system crashed.
>> >
>> > Without debugging or even a panic message, it is fairly
>> > difficult to make any useful suggestions.
>> >
>> >> i rebooted and did fsck and tried the rebuild again - same thing :(
>> >
>> > Panic message?
>> >
>> >> reboot again, fsck with many errors (some sectors could not be
>> >> written, inconsistancy soft updates).
>> >> i managed to start gnome2 agian. i started vmware and ... crash agin
>> >> :'(
>> >
>> > Are you sure you don't want to run FreeBSD 4.8?
>> >
>> >> so i thought of using the old kernel again but when i restart and
>> >> run fsck it is NOT able to mark /usr as clean  !! :(
>> >>
>> >> what can i do now ? any ideas ?
>> >
>> > When fsck fails to clean /usr are there any error messages?
>> > What fsck command did you issue to clean up /usr?  Did you
>> > try using an alternate super block?
>> >
>> > What compiler flags did you use to build the kernel?
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Larry Rosenman                     http://www.lerctr.org/~ler
>> Phone: +1 972-414-9812                 E-Mail: ler at lerctr.org
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>



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Larry Rosenman                     http://www.lerctr.org/~ler
Phone: +1 972-414-9812                 E-Mail: ler at lerctr.org
US Mail: 1905 Steamboat Springs Drive, Garland, TX 75044-6749
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