Is my hard drive FUBAR, or is it dpkg?
I've started getting messages like the following from upgrading packages: Do you want to install the files fetched [y]: Installing files... (Reading database ... 28597 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace xbase 3.3.2-2 (using .../x11/xbase_3.3.2-3.deb) ... xdm and xfs not running, continuing with xbase installation. Unpacking replacement xbase ... dpkg: error processing debian/dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/x11/xbase_3.3.2-3.deb (--install): error flushing `usr/X11R6/lib/X11/x11perfcomp/fillblnk': No space left on device dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) but the /usr partition has over 400M free: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/x11perfcomp]# df . 7:09PM Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on /dev/hda21486371 931336 478226 66% /usr and the file doesn't appear to be corrupted: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/x11perfcomp]# ls -la . 7:09PM total 5 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Apr 7 19:08 . drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 1024 Apr 7 19:08 .. -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 424 Mar 25 20:58 fillblnk -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 784 Mar 25 20:58 perfboth -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 723 Mar 25 20:58 perfratio so what's going on? This is on a 2.0.33 machine. Should I downgrade the kernel? Is the hard drive dying? I noticed in /var/log/kernel.log that there are lots of messages like the following: Free blocks count corrupted for block group 17 Apr 7 18:57:49 everybody kernel: EXT2-fs error (device 03:02): ext2_new_block: Free blocks count corrupted for block group 17 Apr 7 18:58:22 everybody kernel: EXT2-fs error (device 03:02): ext2_new_block: Free blocks count corrupted for block group 17 Apr 7 19:06:10 everybody kernel: EXT2-fs error (device 03:02): ext2_new_block: Free blocks count corrupted for block group 17 Apr 7 19:06:34 everybody last message repeated 4 times Apr 7 19:08:27 everybody kernel: EXT2-fs error (device 03:02): ext2_new_block: Free blocks count corrupted for block group 17 which seems to suggest SOMETHING horrible is wrong. What do I do? Ben -- Brought to you by the letters I and T and the number 18. Porco ga daisuki! -- Fio, Porco Rosso Ben Gertzfield http://www.imsa.edu/~wilwonka/ Finger me for my public PGP key. I'm on FurryMUCK as Che, and EFNet and YiffNet IRC as Che_Fox. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is my hard drive FUBAR, or is it dpkg?
I noticed in /var/log/kernel.log that there are lots of messages like the following: Free blocks count corrupted for block group 17 Apr 7 18:57:49 everybody kernel: EXT2-fs error (device 03:02): ext2_new_block: Free blocks count corrupted for block group 17 Apr 7 18:58:22 everybody kernel: EXT2-fs error (device 03:02): ext2_new_block: Free blocks count corrupted for block group 17 Apr 7 19:06:10 everybody kernel: EXT2-fs error (device 03:02): ext2_new_block: Free blocks count corrupted for block group 17 Apr 7 19:06:34 everybody last message repeated 4 times Apr 7 19:08:27 everybody kernel: EXT2-fs error (device 03:02): ext2_new_block: Free blocks count corrupted for block group 17 which seems to suggest SOMETHING horrible is wrong. You need to run e2fsck. Do `touch /forcefsck' as root, then reboot. After e2fsck gets run you can remove /forcefsck. It is possible that there is a bad block, as well. You might want to run `badblocks' on the drive. If it is an IDE or modern SCSI drive, then this may mean that the drive is dying, as they normally remap bad blocks onto unused good blocks reserved for that purpose. If more bad blocks start appearing, then you'd better back up *soon*, as you've probably got less than 24 hours to total FUBAR mode. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is my hard drive FUBAR, or is it dpkg?
Ben Gertzfield writes: I've started getting messages like the following from upgrading packages: Do you want to install the files fetched [y]: Installing files... (Reading database ... 28597 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace xbase 3.3.2-2 (using .../x11/xbase_3.3.2-3.deb) ... xdm and xfs not running, continuing with xbase installation. Unpacking replacement xbase ... dpkg: error processing debian/dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/x11/xbase_3.3.2-3.deb (--install): error flushing `usr/X11R6/lib/X11/x11perfcomp/fillblnk': No space left on device dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) but the /usr partition has over 400M free: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/x11perfcomp]# df . 7:09PM Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on /dev/hda21486371 931336 478226 66% /usr What about inodes? df -i Regards, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / http://home.pages.de/~joey/ / The only stupid question is the unasked one / -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
