[1144] in Athena Bugs
mapping bug
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ackerman@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Sat Oct 8 20:50:28 1988
From: <ackerman@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: ackerman@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Sat, 08 Oct 88 20:50:00 EDT
There is a bug where, occasionally, part of your filesystem just
disappears. It happened a few moments ago to me; my Mail and News directories
were empty. Yesterday, Wendy Mackay's directory with some papers in them
came up empty on an "ls". I've had it once before, too, when trying to
save out an emacs file.
The fix is to re-attach yourself. You get:
E40-358-18% ls -l News
total 0
E40-358-18% ls -l Mail
total 0
E40-358-18% whoami
ackerman
E40-358-18% pwd
/site/mit/ackerman
E40-358-18% attach ackerman
ackerman: Already attached...mapping
and then your files are there again:
E40-358-18% ls -l Mail
total 23
-rw------- 1 ackerman 219 Oct 7 18:42 #draft
-rw------- 1 ackerman 623 Sep 19 20:40 #draft~
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ackerman 22 Oct 5 21:33 context
drwxrwxr-x 2 ackerman 512 Sep 3 1987 dictionary
and so on.
