PowerMac G4: automatic fsck fails

[Garance A Drosihn]

At 12:23 AM +0200 3/28/06, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
>Hello,
>
>Still the same G4, still running:
>root at kg-g4# uname -a
>FreeBSD kg-g4.kg4.no 7.0-20051105-SNAP FreeBSD 7.0-20051105-SNAP #0: Sat
>Nov  5 04:33:52 UTC 2005   
>root at macmini.ptree32.com.au:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  powerpc
>
>When I get a crash (fatal kernel trap), the machine tries to run fsck
>automatically on boot, but it fails with:
>"Automatic file system check failed: help!", preceeded by
>... "LINK COUNT INCREASING"
>... "UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY: RUN fsck MANUALLY."
>
>This happens every time. Is this normal and expected?

For what it's worth, I have been running 6.x-stable on my mini,
and haven't seen any dramatic problems with it.  No panics,
and I think fsck's have worked okay for me the few times I've
done one.  But to be honest, I am not sure that I have done
all that many fsck's.

I also have the line:

background_fsck="NO"

in my /etc/rc.conf file, on all my machines.  But that's just
because I am sometimes testing some of my own changes, and I
just feel better to have one fsck complete before I trip
over whatever caused the initial crash...

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Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad at gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad at freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih at rpi.edu