[3876] in RedHat Linux List
kernel panic !!! inode problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (manders@sirius.com)
Mon Nov 11 12:45:36 1996
From: manders@sirius.com
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Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 10:35:46 +0000
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I have been experiencing a kernel panic problem which locks up my
system. This started just two days ago. I have not had a power outage
or other problem where I had to turn off the machine until this. Of
course, once the PANIC sets in I have to give 'er the one-finger
salute (reset) as the three-finger (cntrl-alt-del) doesn't even
respond. During boot fsck reports the problem every time and attempts
to fix it. Each time it is a new inode and block that are bad.
running dmesg each time (boot scrolls too fast to read) I see a
different block each time. I have tried to use debugfs and badblocks
but to no avail. Is there a simple way to fix a fs without too much
todo, besides a backup, which I don't have on this particular
machine?
This machine is a 486dx4 120 with 16MB RAM and two IDE HD (540 MB &
1.6 GB), 3C509 Eth. & a generic hercules mono-vid card. Only a
bare-bones system is installed, but with the dev stuff and most
commands and most of the non-x progs.
I am using IDE drives on this one and I have never had this trouble
with IDE before. Nothing, hardware-wise has changed in this machine
in over two months. The machine had been up for 6 days when this
happened. The only thing that was changed was the permissions on a
linked file (/usr/bin/passwd).
Any advice or ideas of how to fix this and prevent this in the future
would be appreciated, besides adding a backup, which I plan to do now
already.
TIA
Chris
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