glgac@iceman.jcu.oz (G A Carpenter) (11/02/90)
Over the past year our DN4500 has collected a number of
corrupted files and directories - mostly, I believe, from
an apparent bug in the PCI server used with our DPCI system.
The most frequent problem is the corruption of directories:
% ls
arc.bad/
% ls arc.bad
unabled to unwind stack because of invalid stack frame
(process manager/process fault manager)
In one case we actually created a file which would
cause a full system reboot when the file was accessed -
all the way down to the self test.
We can always recover most of the contents of these lost directories,
but we cannot repair or remove the directory itself. We now have
half a dozen of these poison directories sitting on our hard disk.
So, can anyone tell me:
1) How do I get rid of them? rm and rmdir choke and die as above.
2) Have there ever been patches for the PCI server to
correct this problem? (we are using V4.0 of the PCI_SVR)
Thanks.
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Guy Carpenter guy@frank.jcu.edu.au
Marine Geophysics, voice (077) 81 4981
James Cook University, fax (077) 25 1501
Townsville, Australia
------------------------------------------------------------ glgac@iceman.jcu.oz (G A Carpenter) (11/02/90)
I have now (thanks to a kind soul at HPollo)
managed to remove the corrupt directories.
where rm -r, rmdir and /com/sald fail,
/com/dlt succeeds.
Seems that Aegis has a few tricks up its sleeve yet!
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Guy Carpenter guy@frank.jcu.edu.au
Marine Geophysics, voice (077) 81 4981
James Cook University, fax (077) 25 1501
Townsville, Australia
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