Re: fsck failed after hard crash

From: Sebastian Ssmoller <sebastian.ssmoller_at_gmx.net>
Date: 14 Sep 2003 19:02:17 +0200
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

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?
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
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