Subject: Re: mondef not ok?
To: NetBSD/Amiga Mailing List <port-amiga@NetBSD.ORG>
From: None <mparson@fargo.imtdirect.com>
List: port-amiga
Date: 03/11/1997 08:14:35
In message <yam7009.1151.138108792@merkouri.world.acropolis.net>, you write:
>    hi all,
>    I am having a slightly annoying problem.
>    I used BFFS 1.3 on my netbsd system, and tried to operate on some files,
> using several programs on my Amiga (Shell, BrowserII, etc.). I tried to put a
> Disk.info on both root and usr partitions and had a disk full message on both
> occasions.

The best thing to do with BSD partitions under AmigaDOS is to pretend
that they are read-only... If all you do is read the data then things
tend to work OK, it is when you start writing to the partition that you
start corrupting things.  I had a similar experience under NetBSD 1.1
and BFFS 1.3.  It would probably be a good idea to upgrade your BFFS to
a newer version, check the NetBSD-Amiga ftp sites for the latest (1.4b?)

>    When I loaded bsd, it paniced and it refused to load. I loaded from the
> bootfile used for installing NetBSD, and mounted the partitions. I fsck'd and
> after A LOT of salvaging, I ls'd and the result was a list of files like this
> "#5499", "#1090", etc....
>    I viewd the contents of each of this, and restored the names back to
> normal, and fsck'd again to restore the system, to each normal state.
>    I succeeded in name restoration, instead of one case. On the root dir (/),
> there is one directory that includes a subdir named .X11-unix, which in turn
> includes a socket-type (this given from file command) file named X0.

The .X11-unix dir should be under /tmp as /tmp/.X11-unix, this is where
X lists sockets in use.

>    I believe that this is the reason that when I run startx, I am given a
> message /netbsd mondef not ok. I tried grfconfig to test if the graphics
> adapter is incorrectly setup and it showed the proper definitions.
>    Oh, and each time I try to run the system, I have a core dump. Any
> solutions?

You might want to do an 'upgrade' and restore the core system from the
original install files...

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Michael Parson
SMART Technologies