Re: parallelizing fsck

1999-05-19 Thread Theodore Y. Ts'o
Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 20:20:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Wim Kerkhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I think I know what's going on. Check and make sure /dev/null exists > and is a device file. If it isn't e2fsck will hang in a loop in > reserve_stdio_fds(). This fix is obvious; if open of /dev/

Re: parallelizing fsck

1999-05-19 Thread Wim Kerkhoff
On Tue, 18 May 1999, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: >Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 00:38:32 +0200 (CEST) >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Wim Kerkhoff writes: > > A couple of days ago, the power went out. Now, when I boot into potato, > > the boot procedure sticks o

Boot sticks on "Parallelizing fsck..."

1999-05-09 Thread Wim Kerkhoff
The other night, the power went out, and after it came back on, Debian 2.2 hangs on boot. I don't know wether my problem is related to that or the kernel compile as listed below, but it sits forever on the line: Parallelizing fsck version 1.14 (9-Jan-1999). When I do a Ctrl-C, it mount