hard reset impacts on ufs file system

[Julian Elischer]

On 5/16/14, 10:44 PM, Ali Okan YÜKSEL wrote:
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> file corruption after hard reset on FreeBSD 8.3
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> details:
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> Hard reset examined on freebsd 8.3. after reboot libncurses.so.8 was 0
> byte. And I couldn't login to system. It gave me error message about
> /bin/sh - libncurses.so.8 corruption. (libncurses depens /bin/sh I guess)
> I found the problem by using fixed shell.
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> solution:
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> I copied libncurses.so.8 from another system. When I did it problem solved.
Unfortunattely libraries do seem to be one of the more common
victims of this sort of thing but I have never worked out how.
However,as you said, recovery is relatively easy by booting single
user and specifying /rescue/sh as your shell.

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> question:
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> Is it known situation? Did you ever live a problem like this?
yeas I have seen similar. I don't know why libraries are in that state 
though.

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> Kind regards,
> Ali Okan Yüksel
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