Disk instability

From: Mike Whorley <Mike.Whorley_at_coda.com>
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 18:30:52 +0000

All,

I recently upgraded to TU5.0 and all appeared to be working fine. Just
before Christmas I made a recovery tape using btcreate and since then have
been experiencing strange disk behavior.

If I cd to /lib and issue a straightforward du command the machine crashes
with the following :-

denmark.coda.com:/lib>du -sk *
0 DIA
21211 X11
2 appletviewer.properties
1 awt.properties
8576 classes.zip
0 cmplrs
6 content-types.properties
0 cpp
0 cron
.....
.....
.....
0 libxproc.a
0 libxti.a
0 liby.a
59 libz.a
du: lsm/bin/disk.init: I/O error
du: lsm/bin/disk.k-rm: Permission denied
du: lsm/bin/disk.list: Permission denied
du: lsm/bin/disk.menu: Permission denied
du: lsm/bin/disk.mirror: Permission denied
du: lsm/bin/disk.offline: Permission denied
du: lsm/bin/disk.online: Permission denied
du: lsm/bin/disk.repl: Permission denied
du: lsm/bin/disk.rm: Permission denied
du: lsm/bin/disk.hot-off: Permission denied
du: lsm/bin/disk.vmove: Permission denied
du: lsm/bin/lsmdiskinit: Permission denied
du: lsm/bin/disk.hot-on: Permission denied
du: lsm/bin/strtovoff: Permission denied
du: lsm/bin/volckdiskrm: Permission denied
du: lsm/bin/disk.recover: Permission denied
du: lsm/bin/egettxt: Permission denied
du: lsm/bin/volconfigdump: Permission denied
du: lsm/bin/volkprint: Permission denied
du: lsm/bin/volprivutil: Permission denied
du: lsm/bin/volr5check: Permission denied
du: lsm/bin/volr5vrfy: Permission denied
du: lsm/bin/volwriteempty: Permission denied
du: fatal error - can't cd to .. (lsm)

When I type in further commands I simply get a bus error that is only
cleared with a reboot

denmark.coda.com:/lib>ls
Bus error
denmark.coda.com:/lib>ls
Bus error

Has anyone experienced similar behavior ?

What are the best places to start hunting for clues ?

There appears to be some issues with entries (dsk3+dsk4) in voldisk that are
appearing as 'error' but this may be a Red Herring :-

denmark.coda.com:/>voldisk list
DEVICE TYPE DISK GROUP STATUS
dsk0f simple - - online
dsk1 sliced rz1 rootdg online
dsk2 sliced rz2 rootdg online
dsk3 sliced - - error
dsk4 sliced - - error
dsk5 sliced - - unknown
dsk6 sliced - - unknown
rz3 sliced rz3 rootdg online
rz6 sliced rz6 rootdg online

Any ideas greatly appreciated.

Regards,
Mike.
 

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