From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] suicidal flchk
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 21 Nov 2003 08:32:33 MST."
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From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com>
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Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 10:11:14 -0500
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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.

please don't.  i'd really like to get enough information
to find this bug.

you can boot from a plan 9 cd in order
to poke around.

how big is the disk?  how much space is in use?
perhaps it's small enough to transfer over
the network?