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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!blackbush.xlink.net!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Weird! Simple files have become device files! (2.1.5) Date: 27 Dec 1996 19:53:11 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 21 Message-ID: <5a19f7$df1@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <59q27r$foi@uuneo.neosoft.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33199 conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier) wrote: > brw-r--r-- 1 root wheel - 215, -1614020590 Mar 15 16:41 ListP.h > Any idea how something like this could happen? How to fix? > P.S. I did have a system lockup the other day (forced to power down > without shutting down), and had to do a bit of twiddling to get the > file system back into working order. How old's your system? I have seen symptoms like the above with an AHA2940 back in the 2.0.5 days. I eventually moved my system at work to a 2.2-branch machine later, and haven't seen this kind of damage again since. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)