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Subject: Re: [9fans] suicidal flchk
From: mirtchov@cpsc.ucalgary.ca
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Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 08:32:33 -0700
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> And on startup it dies with
>
> init: starting /bin/rc
> cacheLocalData: addr=36846 type got 16 exp 0: tag got 0 exp 142e41e4
> fossil 24: suicide: sys: trap: fault read addr=0x0 pc=0x0002b5f5
>
> Any ideas how to remedy?

I've been there, my condolences...  Only reasonable solution I found
was to reinitialize from a venti score.  Otherwise the machine just
won't boot.

If you have a recent venti score and a bootable CD you won't need a
second hard drive to do it -- boot from the CD, run 'ramfs' and create
a venti description file that will start your venti partition proper.
Once you've started venti you can just run fossil/fmfmt -v 'venti
score'.

If your CD (like mine) is old and doesn't have the fossil binaries you
can run 9fs sources and use the latest ones from Bell Labs.

andrey