Subject: RE: db>t
To: Jonathan Newquist <port-mac68k@netbsd.org>
From: Henry B. Hotz <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 09/15/2002 12:40:09
At 8:37 PM -0500 9/13/02, Jonathan Newquist wrote:
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Henry B. Hotz [mailto:hotz@jpl.nasa.gov]
>Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 7:40 PM
>To: Jonathan Newquist; port-mac68k@netbsd.org
>Subject: RE: db>t
><...>
>>the other "various" freezes i encounter are:
>>
>>about one third of the time it is just a solid, unexplained freeze;
>>have to hit the switch.
>>
>>the other third of the time, it is "cleaned inode isn't!" kernel panic.
>
>If this is as much as 1/3 of the time and you system is becoming
>progressively less stable then perhaps it's an NCR vice SBC scsi
>driver issue.  I presume you have done a fsck when you should.
>
>[jn]- my understanding is, fsck runs automatically on startup after 
>each time i have to kill it with the switch.  it is what makes the 
>boot take forever, along with ssh-keygen... 
>
>or should i be running it from the command line too, with different toggles?

Wouldn't hurt.  Not sure what options are used on boot, but I think 
they are not as exhaustive as the default.
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