HELP! [homega@vlc.servicom.es: unexpected inconsistency!]
I posted this a few days ago, and I got no responses. Now, after two days
it has happened yet again ... this time while editing various files on
three different consoles: all of a sudden I got a message (don't remember
which one), and couldn't do anything else, not even ^C. I had to reset the
machine (^AltDel wouldn't work either) and the fsck gave me an error on one
of the disk partitions; then gave me the choice to either enter my root
password to fix the problem, or to press ^D. I did the former and got this
prompt:
[none]~#
ran e2fsck on the partition, exit, and reboot... yet another wrong partition
... but this time I could log as normal root. I ran e2fsck again and that's
it ... just that this is starting to sound worrying, so please, could you
give me an idea of what could be going on here?
TIA
Horacio
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> Subject: unexpected inconsistency!
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> I was using netscape (communicator4.5) and all of a sudden... the x-window
> hanged! Not even Ctrl-Alt-Backspace would work, so I had to resort to the
> reset button.
>
> Now, on reboot, the problem came when checking hdc6 (/home):
>
> /dev/hdc6: Unattached inode 70865
> /dev/hdc6: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY
> (i.e. without -a or -p options)
> ... then kept checking until...
>
> fsck failed - Please repair manually
> CONTROL-D will exit from this shell and continue system startup
>
> Give root password for maintenance
> (or type Control-D for normal startup):
>
> ... so here I choose to press ^D ...
>
> EXT2-fs warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is recommended
>
> login:
>
> I tried to run e2fsck but it told me to run fsck without the -a or -p
> options (ok, now I realize I was trying to run `e2fsck -p'), so I ran fsck:
>
> fsck /dev/hdc6
>
> Parallelizing fsck version 1.10 (24-Apr-97)
> e2fsck 1.10, 24-Apr-97 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
> /dev/hdc6 is mounted. Do you really want to continue (y/n)? yes
>
> /dev/hdc6 contains a file system with errors, check forced.
> Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
> Pass 2: Checking directory structure
> Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
> Pass 4: Checking reference counts
> Unattached inode 70865
> Connect to /lost+found<y>? yes
>
> Inode 70865 ref count is 2, should be 1. Fix<y>? yes
>
> Pass 5: Checking group summary information
> Fix summary information<y>? yes
>
> Block bitmap differences: -152626 -152627 -152628 -152629 -152630 -152631
> -152632. FIXED
> Free blocks count wrong for group 18 (172, counted=179). FIXED
> Free blocks count wrong (234959, counted=234966). FIXED
>
> /dev/hdc6: ***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED *****
> /dev/hdc6: 1518/76912 files (9.9% non-contiguous), 72127/307093 blocks
>
>
> I include the file /home/lost+found/#70865 which looks like html stuff, which
> I think should be from the site I was browsing (actually, just trying a ftp
> link).
>
> Deeply Concerned,
>
> Horacio.
> <TITLE>Directory of /pub/linux</TITLE>
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