RE: fsck segmentation fault

["Mark Shlimovich" <frequency0@socal.rr.com>]

Interesting. The kernel drop some sort of error that the swap has run out ?
If not, is it possible to implement something of the sort. I would have
never guessed that was the problem.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-misc@openbsd.org [mailto:owner-misc@openbsd.org]On Behalf Of
Marco Brigham
Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 7:48 AM
To: misc@openbsd.org
Subject: Re: fsck segmentation fault


Low swap space was indeed the case...I've added some swap, and fsck did
its jobs just fine.

Thanks a lot,

Marco Brigham


----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Liesner" <t.liesner@creativ-consulting.de>
To: <misc@openbsd.org>
Cc: "Marco Brigham" <marco.brigham@advalvas.be>
Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 13:52
Subject: Re: fsck segmentation fault


>
> Am Montag, 2. Juli 2001 um 13:14 schrieb Marco Brigham:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I installed a 40Gig hard-drive on an Intel machine with an old BIOS.
The
> > bios didn't recognize the new drive, but OBSD did just fine.
> > Everything was working properly until I had a power loss related
crash.
> > Now when I mount the drive's partition manually, mount reports that
the
> > filesystem is not clean and that fsck should be run first. When I
try to
> > run fsck on it, fsck gives a segmentation fault.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
>
> Swap-space too low. try adding additional swap-space manually.
>
> HTH
>
> Tom