On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 05:55:29PM +0200, Dan Naumov wrote: > Kris Kennaway wrote > > >You get that error from what command(s)? Have you tried with 5.2, > >which has a new ATA driver? > > > >Kris > > > > > I usually "discover" that I am having data corruption when trying to > update ports. A file that has a "Bad File Descriptor" refuses to let > cvsup overwrite and/or remove itself. I've also had "make installworld" > fail on me for the very same reason. A file in the base system would get > corrupted and would prevent anything from overwriting itself. These > problems would go away after a full system fsck, but the fsck would > remove the damaged files completely, sometimes leaving the system in a > severely broken state. And even if it did not, data corruption would > happen again in 8-12 days.
Are there any other console or system messages logged? It sounds like there should be some other error reported by the kernel before the userland command receives the EBADF. Kris
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