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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!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uuneo.neosoft.com!news From: conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Weird! Simple files have become device files! (2.1.5) Date: 29 Dec 1996 00:47:16 GMT Organization: NeoSoft, Inc. Lines: 36 Message-ID: <5a4f2k$t2r@uuneo.neosoft.com> References: <59q27r$foi@uuneo.neosoft.com> <5a19f7$df1@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.27.165.166 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33282 In article <5a19f7$df1@uriah.heep.sax.de>, j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes: > 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. This is a 2.1.5 box. although it's been through a few...uh... *transformations*, you might say, in the last few months (played with CURRENT for a while, but wound up going back to the more stable earlier release). I recently zapped and then re-installed all the 2.1.5 sources and did a "make world", so I think I have a fairly stable platform here. I forget now what I was doing when I had the lockup, but it obviously was a BAD IDEA, whatever it was. :-) No biggie, really. I can always wipe the files and reinstall them. I was just hoping there might be some way to avoid having to do that. -- Conrad Sabatier | conrads@neosoft.com | Eschew obfuscation. http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads |