Here's the output of 'dpkg -l sysvinit': Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-==============-==============-============================================ ii sysvinit 999 sysvinit dummy package for the Hurd.
Oh, the drives are all under 1GB. For that matter, if the drive gets trashed testing things I have a spare just like it so it's not a big deal. :) 'vmstat' output. Mem usage is high as I was running e2fsck.static at the time. I usually run at 0-10MB of swap used. Haven't checked while running X, though. pagesize: 4K size: 28M free: 6.24M active: 5.47M inactive: 8.88M wired: 7.44M zero filled: 4.7G reactivated: 350M pageins: 841M pageouts: 910M page faults: 6686547 cow faults: 649203 memobj hit ratio: 93% swap size: 91.5M swap free: 53.6M I tried reproducing this error several times to no effect. As I was about to shrug and declare it mystically fixed, it happened again. I was logged in and using dselect from another machine. This is what showed on the screen directly attached to the Hurd machine: memory_object_data_request(0x0, 0x0, 0x43000, 0x1000, 0x3) failed, 268435459 ... And a few seconds later, a warning that the /dev/hd0s2 filesystem wasn't unmounted cleanly. 'mount' showed it to be suddenly mounted read only. I was able to do several apt-get install's before this happened. It was only running dselect a couple times as root that it popped up. Seems more frequent under dselect for some reason. The error I got on the screen running dselect was: /dev/fd/4: line 54: 9741 Bus error $APTGET $OPTS "$APT_OPTO" "$APT_OPT1" dselect-upgrade After that was a small paragraph from dselect telling me it noted the error and was going to try to configure what was installed (nothing). I hit enter to continue. It said installation returned error 100. I quit out of dselect and started work cleaning the filesystem. Here's a log of how that went. Script started on Mon Apr 1 06:31:33 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# sync [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# mount mount: /etc/fstab: Warning: duplicate entry for mount point swap (/dev/hd1s3) device:hd1s1 on / type ext2fs.static (rw,sync=5) /dev/hd1s2 on /home type ext2 (rw,sync=5) /dev/hd0s2 on /opt type ext2 (ro,sync=5) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# settrans -g /opt [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# showtrans /opt [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# e2fsck.static -cy /dev/hd0s2 e2fsck 1.25 (20-Sep-2001) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# e2fsck.static -cy /dev/hd0s2 < checks for bad blocks... No error messages, cut for readability > Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes Inode 8130 has illegal block(s). Clear? yes Illegal block #-1 (2566813404) in inode 8130. CLEARED. Illegal block #524 (4294967295) in inode 8130. CLEARED. Illegal block #525 (4294967295) in inode 8130. CLEARED. Illegal block #526 (4294967295) in inode 8130. CLEARED. Illegal block #527 (4294967295) in inode 8130. CLEARED. Illegal block #528 (4294967295) in inode 8130. CLEARED. Illegal block #529 (4294967295) in inode 8130. CLEARED. Illegal block #530 (4294967295) in inode 8130. CLEARED. Illegal block #531 (4294967295) in inode 8130. CLEARED. Illegal block #532 (4294967295) in inode 8130. CLEARED. Illegal block #533 (4294967295) in inode 8130. CLEARED. Too many illegal blocks in inode 8130. Clear inode? yes Restarting e2fsck from the beginning... Note: the script died here. The illegal blocks were in /var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin, which was erased. It asked a couple other questions but none of them seemed unusual for a filesystem that was unmounted cleanly. I'll try to catch those errors next time. Thanks, Erik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]