hi,

today my desktop machine locked up, because i did something stupid [1]
i rebooted, but jfs_fsck-1.1.6 (from ubuntu linux)  found corruptions and
mounted the fs readonly (sadly the bootprocess continued and so the fsck's
output of the first corruptions is gone). i went to runlevel 1, fsck'ed
again but now the fs seemed clean. i tried to remount -o rw, but got this
error:

ERROR: (device sda5): XT_GETPAGE: xtree page corrupt

ok, remounting rw did not succeed, running jfs_fsck again revealed some
corruptions:

File system object FF4098 is linked as: /etc/mailcap
File claims cross linked block(s).
cannot repair FF4098.  Will release.
File system object FF5980 is linked as: /etc/mtab
File claims cross linked block(s).
cannot repair FF5980.  Will release.
File system object FF37134 is linked as: /tmp/.gdmVQXJud
The path(s) refer to an unallocated file. Will remove.
File system object FF290840 is linked as: /tmp/.gdm_socket
The path(s) refer to an unallocated file. Will remove.
File system object FF290845 is linked as: /tmp/.X0-lock
The path(s) refer to an unallocated file. Will remove.

running fsck_jfs once more (with -f) made me believe everything was ok.
i fetched the latest jfsutils (1.1.8), rebooted, the boot-process again
says something about "permission denied" when trying to cleanup /tmp
during boot. i checked again with fsck_jfs, found again a few corruptions,
a 2nd run stated the fs is clean now.

how comes there are corruptions when fsck says the fs is clean? and: are
the above messages signs of trouble ahead? right now i'm running X in the
same machine, so problems right now. but the corruptions did cost me some
files in /etc too (mailcap, network/interfaces, maybe more...).

more info right here: http://nerdbynature.de/bits/prinz64/2.6.12-mm2/jfs/

thanks,
Christian.

[1] cat /dev/port > /tmp/test, then lockup...don't ask :-)
-- 
BOFH excuse #346:

Your/our computer(s) had suffered a memory leak, and we are waiting for
them to be topped up.


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