laptop keeps crashing, any ideas....

[Jason Helfman]

On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 08:03:01PM +0300, Andriy Gapon thus spake:
>on 27/09/2012 19:51 Jason Helfman said the following:
>> Hello All,
>>
>> I was wondering if anyone has any ideas on how I may diagnose/resolve this
>> issue. This is running 9.0 amd64 on a Toshiba Satellite A215. Unfortunately,
>> any cdrom other than the recovery cdrom doesn't work. And the recovery cd no
>> longer will recover. I'm not sure if this is a related issue, or just that
>> the harddrive is on it's last leg. It appears to be a filesystem issue, but
>> I can't boot it to diagnose any issues.
>>
>> I am unable to retrieve logs, so here is a photo of the crash. If you open
>> in a image viewer, it should appear upright.
>>
>> http://people.freebsd.org/~jgh/files/photo.JPG
>
>From a quick glance, your ffs filesystem appears to be badly damaged.
>Not sure how you could proceed from here.  Maybe force fsck in single user mode.
>Try to make a disk image copy and play with it first (or keep it as a backup).
>
>-- 
>Andriy Gapon
>

Turns out that there was some either corrupt file under /tmp that was X
related, or had wrong permissions. I had to clear out tmp manually, then run
startx to get into X windows. At this point, I remove the bit from
/etc/rc.conf that I had put in there to not clean out X related bits from
tmp. With all of these steps, I am successfully back on-line.

-jgh

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Jason Helfman
FreeBSD Committer | http://people.freebsd.org/~jgh | The Power To Serve