Re: attempt to access beyond end of device

[John Summerfield <debian@ComputerDatasafe.com.au>]

steve downes wrote:

> on Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 07:38:59AM -0700, Stefan O'Rear wrote: 
>  
>
> > On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 03:13:52PM +0100, steve downes wrote:
> >    
> >
> > > I keep getting the message below:-
> > >
> > > attempt to access beyond end of device>
> > > 03:02 rw=0 want=1898676924, limit 4883760
> > >
> > > I get it when I open the /etc directory in midnight commander ...
> > >      
> > Could be very bad...
> > Try closing your programs and rebooting your computer with the force
> > fsck option, you can use this command (as root) :
> >
> >   shutdown -F -r now
> >
> > Then tell us what the fsck reported.
> >
> >    
>
> It fixed 4 inodes then crashed out with :-
>
> /dev/hda2: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY 
>
> etc
>
> Ran fsck maually & it found thousands of inode faults on the back end
> of the disk. It now reboots & the fault has cleared but so has a lot
> of software. Looks like a re-install. Fortunately it's a data free
> machine except for a server backup.
>
> Thanks for your help
>  

I'd give it a damnd good memory test first. Last time _I_ had lots of 
errors, replacing everything round the disk drive cured the problem:-)




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John

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