Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!purdue!decwrl!ucbvax!hoptoad!hugh From: hugh@hoptoad.uucp (Hugh Daniel) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux Subject: Some notes on problems in A/UX Keywords: AUX bug reports Message-ID: <5123@hoptoad.uucp> Date: 17 Aug 88 05:26:45 GMT References: <17331@gatech.edu> <15011@apple.Apple.COM> <7903@mhuxu.UUCP> <571@sequent.cs.qmc.ac.uk> Organization: Nebula Consultants in San Francisco Lines: 42 > liam@cs.qmc.ac.uk (William Roberts) wrote: Haveing fixed some of the bugs that liam@cs.qmc.ac.uk pointed out in his bugreport months ago, I guess it would be better to post them to this group insted of just hopeing things are better next time round. > 3. FSCK Problem This is a problem with the boot scripts, the program /bin/pname is not getting run before non root files systems are fsck'ed. To fix, put a line like "/bin/paname -a" in /etc/bcheckrc near the begining. Then commment out the old "pname -a" in brc (You don't have to do this, all it will do is give some strange useless error messages). > 4. /etc/NETADDRS has no apparent effect This file seems to be used by the software that deals with the ehter card. If you get this IP adderss out of sync with the *REAL* one in /etc/hosts then you will have a broken network after the next boot. > 1. "sync" and "powerdown" do not fully sync the disk? This is a standard system five problem ("Considder it Sub..."). What I now do for ALL non crash reboots is to become root, do a "sync;sync;umount -a" then a "sync;powerdown" or reboot. This will do a good job of saveing the non root filesystems from damage, but the root is still fryed on reboot much of the time. (Question: Has anyone else run into cases where fsck finds a problem, reboots, then finds ANOTHER problem so bad it has to reboot a second time? I have seen this in A/UX and never elsewhere.) > 1. dumpfs missing from our 80 Meg disk Also restore, rdump, rrestore and rmt, all of which would be usefull at our site. As things stand now since I have to work hard to backup my A/UX box I never put hard work that I would not want to lose on my A/UX system. Everything lives on a Sun, this also gets around the problem of 14 or less character file names. ||ugh Daniel hugh@toad.com Grasshopper Group, 415/668-5998 hugh@well.uucp 212 Clayton St. San Francisco CA94117