Re: kernel panic with checksecurity
On Fri, 21 Mar 1997 08:40:01 EST Brian K Servis (servis@ecn.purdue.edu
) wrote:
> I was running the checksecurity program by hand after adding the types
> vfat and supermount(not really needed) to the list of types to skip in the
> checksecurity.conf file and I got a kernel-panic.
You probably have found a bad sector and/or your partition table is
broken. THe only thing you can do is to try a badblocks and add the
badblock list to the ext2 fs. Or reformat and reinstall :-(
> The current ps shows a find on / which is the only entry to survive
> the parsing of the mount command in the checksecurity script. I tried
> killing the find command with no luck, even kill -9 didn't work. The
> load avg. climbed up to 3 and held steady.
It's normal. Process block in uninterruptible sleep when accessing the hd. They cannot be killed. And as the kernel choked... you got an unkillable process.
Phil.
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