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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!darwin.sura.net!paladin.american.edu!news.univie.ac.at!hp4at!mcsun!uknet!cf-cm!news From: spedpr@thor.cf.ac.uk (Paul Richards) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Corrupted directory Message-ID: <5232.9210151353@thor.cf.ac.uk> Date: 15 Oct 92 13:53:47 GMT References: <26947.9210120417@thor.cf.ac.uk> <1bd165INNrfe@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> <Bw4Fv7.M4L@unx.sas.com> Sender: news@cm.cf.ac.uk (Network News System) Organization: University of Wales College at Cardiff Lines: 42 X-Mailer: Cardiff Computing Maths PP Mail Open News Gateway In article <Bw4Fv7.M4L@unx.sas.com> sastdr@torpid.unx.sas.com (Thomas David Rivers) writes: | |Regarding this infinite reboot cycle; I recently applied the entire |beta patchkit (from a new, clean, installation of 386bsd 0.1) and |began getting this problem. | |I.e. If I have to shut down for some reason, or the power goes out; the | machine reboots. Root gets fsck'd and repaired; and the | machine reboots again. Then there is another problem with the | fsck of root, and the machine reboots, etc... encountering the | same problem over and over. | | I've now seen this happen on two machines to which I applied the beta | patchkit. It did *not* happen on these machines using the kernel I | had patched together from news articles. This means (at least to me) | there is some patch applied by the patchkit which I had not otherwise | applied in my kernel, that is causing the problem. | | I've seen it on a SCSI disk and IDE disk, so I don't think it's in the | driver... could it be some of the changes to init.c? | This is what I've experienced too. On another machine which I patched by hand I've had no problems. Since this was a new installation I thought I'd try the patchkit. I installed all the patches on a clean src and all of a sudden I get these corrupted directory problems. They're easy to reproduce so there's obviously a bug somewhere. The only other difference between these two machines is that the older one has "real" partitioning whereas the new one was set up using install. Since David now thinks it's the patchkit that probably eliminates the partitioning difference. Anyway, thanks to those who pointed out clri to me. I lost a few files but eventually got a clean filesystem. Thanks. -- Paul Richards at Cardiff university, UK. spedpr@uk.ac.cf.thor Internet: spedpr%thor.cf.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk UUCP: spedpr@cf-thor.UUCP or ...!uunet!mcsun!uknet!cf!thor!spedpr +++