boot errors halt system

From: Vicki Jordan <ccvj_at_misty.latrobe.edu.au>
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1995 15:00:55 +1100 (EST)

One of our researchers has a new Alpha 200. The system haug and was
powered off and now hangs on reboot with the following:
dirty filesystem on /usr, then
   update started
   kmknod:getsysinfo() or mknod():
   File exists

....hangs

I can interrupt the boot, manually fsck /usr, mount it and finish booting
with init 3. The three error lines above still occur, but the boot finishes.

On clean shutdown and reboot though, the errors re-occur, /usr is still
dirty and the system still hangs.

Any clues?

Thanks...


Vicki Jordan V.Jordan_at_latrobe.edu.au
Information Technology Services phone: +61 3 9479 1500
La Trobe University fax: +61 3 9479 1999
Bundoora Vic 3083 Australia
Received on Thu Dec 21 1995 - 05:17:39 NZDT