Re: 2.2.12 Directory Corruption

John Goerzen (jgoerzen@complete.org)
11 Sep 1999 17:45:29 -0500


An update.

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I rebooted. At the last instant before rebooting, I got a message
saying "VFS: busy inodes after unmount." I booted into single-user
and ran fsck on it. No errors. After the system came back up, all
was fine.

-- John

John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> writes:

> This is on an Alpha. I have been getting strange results from some
> software. I investigated, and got these results:
>
> erwin ~/mqueue$ ls -l | grep mail.00937075929.00000
> ls: mail.00937075929.00000: No such file or directory
> erwin ~/mqueue$ ls | grep mail.00937075929.00000
> mail.00937075929.00000
>
> According to strace, ls -l is dying:
>
> lstat("mail.00937075929.00000", 0x1ffff9a0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
>
> So, apparently the file is in the directory, but yet isn't. I have no
> idea how this can occur. Ideas?
>
> --
> John Goerzen Linux, Unix consulting & programming jgoerzen@complete.org |
> Developer, Debian GNU/Linux (Free powerful OS upgrade) www.debian.org |
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> The 2,321,089th prime number is 38,037,281.

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John Goerzen   Linux, Unix consulting & programming   jgoerzen@complete.org |
Developer, Debian GNU/Linux (Free powerful OS upgrade)       www.debian.org |
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The 306,173rd digit of pi is 9.

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