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From: julian@mailhub.tfs.com (Julian Elischer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1.0 System Crashes often, please help.
Date: 4 Mar 1996 02:31:06 GMT
Organization: TRW Financial Systems, Oakland, CA
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In article <4hbai5$3gd@dot.cstone.net>, Paul Nguyen <pauln@cstone.net> wrote:
:We are having this problem with one of our webservers.  The machine does fine 
:for 3-5 days after being installed and then it crashes.  When it comes back up 
:it stops at the boot: prompt and then keeps on cycling through reboots.  We 
:have tried to type kernel.old but it keeps rebooting.  It looks like our file 
:system is hosed but I cannot tell what went wrong.

If  it crashes, I assume you try power it down entirely
before rebooting sometimes?

Have you rebooted with the 'fixit' floppy and examined the filesystems?
the order would be:
fdisk /dev/rsd0
disklabel /dev/rsd0
fsck /dev/rsd0a
(possibly fsck -b 32 /dev/rsd0a)
mount /dev/sd0a /mnt2

(look to see what happenned)

there  is an unidentified bug in FreeBSD that we get occasional reports
of where freebsd seems to decide to trash the occasional inode
your problem sounds too reproducible for this though..

julian