On Sat, 27 Jul 2013 13:57:31 -0500, David Noel wrote: > > So the system panics in ufs_rmdir(). Maybe the filesystem is > > corrupt? Have you tried to fsck(8) it manually? > > fsck worked, though I had to boot from a USB image because I couldn't > get into single user.. for some odd reason.
>From your initial description, a _severe_ file system defect seems to be a reasonable assumption. Make sure fsck is run in foreground prior to bringing up the system. The option background_fsck="NO" in /etc/rc.conf will make sure you won't encounter this problem again (_if_ it was related to the file system). Always make sure you're booting into a fsck'ed environment. You could also use a S.M.A.R.T. analysis tool such as smartmon (from ports) to make sure the OS didn't panic because of a hard disk defect. I'm just mentioning this because I have sufficient exoerience in this field. :-) > > Even if the filesystem is corrupt, ufs_rmdir() shouldn't > > panic(), IMHO, but fail gracefully. Hmmm... > > Yeah, I was pretty surprised. I think I tried it like 3 times to be > sure... and yeah, each time... kaboom! It's really surprising that a (comparable) high-level function could fail in that drastic way, but on the other hand, one would assume that there is a _reason_ for this behaviour. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
