On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, michael chopek wrote:
> Thanks for lending a hand Mike and Axalon, I do appreciate it.
>
> I tried everything I could find in the list archives yesterday to no
> avail, being an impatient sod, I reinstalled which of course solved my
> problem.
>
> Having said that, I would still like to learn what I need do to avoid
> the reinstall in the future.
>
> You were indeed correct Axalon it was running xfs.
>
> I tried checking the "xfs" status yesterday and it returned the
> following for "status"
>
> xfs dead but subsys locked
>
> I had no idea what this meant or where to try next so I did the
> reinstall.
>
> I tired stopping xfs and restarting but always had the same error
> message.
>
> What can one do if xfs decides to "die" again?
>
> Is there a way to remove the dead xfs and replace it with a living
> version?
>
> Thanks folks.
Yes you issue a 'restart' and it removes the stale lockfile and restarts
the server, if/when i bombs out after that it will log via syslogd to
/var/log/messages the cause
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