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Re: kernel panic !!! inode problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Zig Herzog)
Mon Nov 11 17:14:06 1996
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 16:32:56 -0500 (EST)
From: Zig Herzog <herzog@egghead.psu.edu>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <199611111729.JAA25458@pop1.sirius.com>
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The symptoms you describe go along with what I had when my disk on a
SUN-Unix machine started to fail. Make a backup as soon as possible.
On Mon, 11 Nov 1996 manders@sirius.com wrote:
> 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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