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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.bugs:1954 comp.os.386bsd.questions:7648 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!news.sol.net!news.sol.net!not-for-mail From: jgreco@solaria.sol.net (Joe Greco) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs,comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: FreeBSD 1.0.2 with NFS-mounted /usr - strange fsck problem Date: 31 Dec 1993 03:03:58 -0600 Organization: Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI Lines: 24 Message-ID: <2g0ptu$j72@solaria.mil.wi.us> NNTP-Posting-Host: solaria.mil.wi.us I am trying to do something a little strange: I have two FreeBSD boxes, one with a rather small hard disk, one with a reasonable amount. I am trying to set up mycogen (the little guy) to NFS mount /usr from praxis (the big guy). It seems to work well, except fsck -p has a problem when booting up. mycogen has two partitions, / and /var. fsck will run and check wd0a on /, but will simply freeze instead of going on to do /var. ^T says that fsck is in iowait, and ^C will cause the "Reboot interrupted" (with no shell prompt). I can do the same thing from singleuser mode and it "locks". Now, the strange thing is that I can run "fsck" (no options) by itself, either from singleuser or /etc/rc, and it works. I don't want to do this permanently because the machine needs to run (and reboot) unattended. I can also boot in singleuser, do a "umount -a; mount -a -t nonfs", and then fsck works fine. I don't have the sources on my machines, but I suspect that it needs something when doing the parallel fsck. Does anybody have a clue? ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/342-4847