Subject: Re: fsck problem
To: Edward Seth Miller <esmiller@engin.umich.edu>
From: Colin Wood <cwood@ichips.intel.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 08/20/1997 09:39:14
Edward Seth Miller wrote:
> 
> I was running the Generic-SBC #32 kernel (since I have a Quantum drive) 
> with the 1.2.1 binaries to test the SBC kernel out.  I found that it 
> worked, so I pulled down the current-970601 binaries.  On the plus side, 
> w and ps now work.  On the minus side, fsck seems to be a little bit 
> different, in as much as it will not run at startup.  ("Unknown error; 
> help!")  As a result, it automatically boots into single-user mode.

What happens when you manually fsck the disk when in single-user??  I've
had trouble with the automatic fsck at boot time before, but it usually
either hangs waiting in tsleep() or just panics for me (actually, it
usually boots just fine, but the above have happened more than once).
I've never received that particular error message before.  Is you
/etc/fstab file correct?

> 	Also, as it's starting the rpc daemons, specifically ypbind, it 
> says "ypbind: Domainname not set. Aborting.".  This is a new error, and 
> while I'm not sure what it's affecting, I wouldn't mind knowing how to 
> fix it...
> 	Does anybody have any suggestions on how to get around these?

You can create a file called /etc/mydomain (it might exist already) and
put something silly in it like 'mydomain.dom', or perhaps something more
useful like your real domain name if you have one.

Of course, this raises the question:  why in the world are you running
ypbind???  Do you have your own intranet?  If you have only one machine,
and it's not tied into a network that you can share passwd and mail alias
information with, there is no good reason to run ypbind.  You can turn it
off by changing the flags in /etc/rc.conf (assuming you upgraded your /etc
files to -current as well as everything else, otherwise I think you have
to edit either /etc/rc or /etc/netstart).

I hope this helps.

Later.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - MD6                 Intel Corporation
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