Re: Serious problem, something corrupt, help!
I meant to say that other commands... like mutt, ls, locate...
are all doing fine...
How can I run fsck on a running system? especially if mount is
segfaulting... is it even possible.
I think that if I reboot, I will be dead in the water.
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 08:52:34AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
> On Mon, 03 Nov 2003 at 15:40 GMT, Anthony R. J. Ball penned:
> >
> > My system has suddenly started puking... it is running right now,
> > but limping... I have had similar problems before, and I want to
> > track this down.
> >
> > grep dies with 'Aborted' su and mount die with a segfault
> >
> > Where should I start looking to track this? I changed nothing on the
> > system before this happened... I've been too busy to have screwed it
> > up.
>
> Last time I had something similar happen (common, simple commands dying
> with screwy errors), it turned out that my disk drive was dying. Within
> a reboot or two, the disk was completely unreadable. So you may want
> to back up everything you hold dear and run fsck to see what it thinks
> ...
>
> >
> > last few lines of strace on grep pipe([3, 4])
> > = 0 fork() = 18062 --- SIGCHLD (Child
> > exited) @ 0 (0) --- read(3, "\376", 1) = 1 brk(0)
> > = 0x805aeb3 brk(0x807beb3) = 0x807beb3 brk(0)
> > = 0x807beb3 brk(0x807c000) = 0x807c000
> > rt_sigprocmask(SIG_UNBLOCK, [ABRT], NULL, 8) = 0 getpid()
> > = 18061 kill(18061, SIGABRT) = 0 --- SIGABRT
> > (Aborted) @ 0 (0) --- +++ killed by SIGABRT +++
> >
> >
> > last 10 lines of strace on su fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644,
> > st_size=3875, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 3875, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 3, 0)
> > = 0x40016000 _llseek(3, 3875, [3875], SEEK_SET) = 0
> > munmap(0x40016000, 3875) = 0 close(3)
> > = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {SIG_IGN}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0 time(NULL)
> > = 1067873964 getuid32() = 50039 ---
> > SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) --- +++ killed by SIGSEGV +++
> >
> >
>
>
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> monique
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