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Article #94Re: Unbelievable bug that didn't happen
From: Andy Poling
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 20:42
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 20:42
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In article <1jnlejINNp5m@fido.asd.sgi.com> pj@sgi.com writes: >In article <1jneleINN2tb@jhunix2.hcf.jhu.edu>, andy@jhunix2.hcf.jhu.edu (Andy Poling) writes: >|> While I was tracking this bug down, it happened -- I may have even made it >|> happen - I dunno. The problem is this: even though the mtab file had been >|> scribbled in since I had last fixed it, the modification time of the file >|> had not changed!!! > >Looks to me like your mtab and /etc/wtmp files are cohabitating. That >is, they are both using a particular block of the file system. > >I'd suggest you go into single user mode and fsck /. Expect some >things such as DUP blocks. Paul takes the prize. Each of the copies of the scribbled mtab that I had saved for posterity showed up as BAD/DUP in phase 1 of the fsck. Of course, how they got that way in the first place is a mystery since I kept creating new mtab files which kept having this happen to them. Thanks Paul! -Andy Andy Poling Internet: andy@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu UNIX Systems Programmer Bitnet: ANDY@JHUNIX Homewood Academic Computing Voice: (410)516-8096 Johns Hopkins University UUCP: uunet!mimsy!aplcen!jhunix!andy
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!ukma!darwin.sura.net!blaze.cs.jhu.edu!jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu!jhunix2.hcf.jhu.edu!not-for-mail From: andy@jhunix2.hcf.jhu.edu (Andy Poling) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.bugs Subject: Re: Unbelievable bug that didn't happen Followup-To: comp.sys.sgi.bugs Date: 26 Jan 1993 15:42:58 -0500 Organization: Homewood Academic Computing, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md, USA Lines: 27 Distribution: world Message-ID: <1k47oiINNp8@jhunix2.hcf.jhu.edu> References: <1jneleINN2tb@jhunix2.hcf.jhu.edu> <1jnlejINNp5m@fido.asd.sgi.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: jhunix2.hcf.jhu.edu Summary: we have a winner! Keywords: oh boy...