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e40-008-9 (VAX) mangled /etc
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jweiss@Athena.MIT.EDU)
Fri Jul 24 17:34:59 1992
From: jweiss@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 92 17:34:27 -0400
To: mar@Athena.MIT.EDU, hoffmann@Athena.MIT.EDU, jjmorey@Athena.MIT.EDU
Cc: bug-dialup@Athena.MIT.EDU, hotline@Athena.MIT.EDU
E40-008-9 was reporting errors like this since about 10 20 last night.
Jul 24 11:24:03 [E40-008-9.MIT.EDU] vmunix: /: bad dir ino 4 at offset 1552: mangled entry
Jul 24 11:24:03 [E40-008-9.MIT.EDU] vmunix: /: bad dir ino 4 at offset 2048: mangled entry
Jul 24 11:24:03 [E40-008-9.MIT.EDU] vmunix: /: bad dir ino 4 at offset 2560: mangled entry
Jul 24 11:24:10 [E40-008-9.MIT.EDU] vmunix: /: bad dir ino 4 at offset 1552: mangled entry
Jul 24 11:24:10 [E40-008-9.MIT.EDU] vmunix: /: bad dir ino 4 at offset 2048: mangled entry
Sometime around then, useful files like utmp were lost. This caused
numerous programs such as finger and uptime to fail. Inode 4 was /etc
I have copied /etc from e40-008-7 and rebooted. I had to run fsck
manually on the old /etc wich I had moved out of the way, this also
relinked a number of files. I have some relevant snapshots. talk to
me if you want to look at them. The server is back in production, and
hopefully won't do this again.
Jonathon
