On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> What prompted you to run xfs_repair in the first place? Do you still
> have the specific error?
After a normal shutdown the machine would panic on startup right after
trying to mount /. Note that this happened after a *normal* shutdown.
Kernel was 2.4 from CVS a couple of days ago. The machine is a Supermicro
SuperServer 5011E. My testing reveals that having ACPI and APM enabled
causes the problem. By disabling these (both in the BIOS and the kernel)
the problem went away.
> If everything wound up in lost+found, it's because directory information
> was lost, so I'm afraid there is no easy way to "put it all back."
I looked at what was created in lost+found and was easily able to put
things back in the right places. Just the highest level directory
structure had been lost (i.e. the connections to /) so it was easy to just
mv 3145688 /etc.
> The original error would be most helpful, along with anything you can think
> of that could have contributed to the problem... (Any odd configuration,
> patches, hardware, etc?)
No oops or anything. A complete description of the hardware is at
www.supermicro.com. I did a shutdown -h now and on restarting it the
machine paniced right after mounting /. The kernel is checked out from
CVS as of a few days ago.
James Rich
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