On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 12:47:11PM -0400, Russell Elik Rademacher wrote: > Now I got a problem here, and I am wondering if anyone have experienced > something anything remote to this. I have built the 7.1/7.2 Beta Server and > it been running for about 2 days, when we had a power outage. So... when > the power came back on, and I rebooted the machine, I noticed that one > partition, the /usr seems to be wiped entirely. Reason is that when it > started the init script bootup, it will spawn like crazy and stops there and > I have to boot into it as single user mode to see what the problem is wrong. > > Anyone got this similiar problem here, since I got that kind of problem > with 7.1 back then on my workstation few times and I thought it is a freak > of nature. But now...having seen the same thing on production server, it > make me wonders if there is seriously wrong with the distro or something > that I have in place. I haven't seen this exactly, but I've seen similar. The first thing I'd dis is run fsck on it (from single user mode or a single floppy disty like tomsrtbt). This sounds like exactly the sort of reason one should have a bare metal restore backup and restoration plan. I've taken to doing that when I install a new OS. -- -- C^2 No windows were crashed in the making of this email. Looking for fine software and/or web pages? http://w3.trib.com/~ccurley
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