From: Chad Netzer <chad AT vision DOT arc DOT nasa DOT gov>
Message-Id: <199908210324.UAA06736@vision.arc.nasa.gov>
Subject: Re: Madrake 6.0 filesystem corruption, etc.
To: pgcc AT delorie DOT com
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 20:24:56 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <37BD679B.C43FBFF7@netplus.net> from "Steve Bergman" at Aug 20, 99 09:35:07 am
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> 
> Hi,
> 
> I bought a copy of MDK6.0 a while back and have been testing it.  I have
> some concerns and am interested in other people's experiences with it.
> 
> Shortly after I installed it on the 450MHZ machine (a day or so), I had
> a power failure.  Whereas I expected to see the usual "Deleted inode has
> 0 dtime()" stuff, this was much worse than usual, with many inodes
> deleted.

Check the /etc/inittab file and make sure the following lines are in it,
and not commented out (well, the bottom one anyway):

# Things to run in every runlevel.
ud::once:/sbin/update

There was a version of the initscripts package that removed them, because
the kernel was supposed to do it already, but that turned out to not be
true.  So, upgrade to a more recent initscripts (if the above lines are
missing) and problem is solved.

    initscripts-4.16-31mdk.i586.rpm

Chad Netzer
chad AT vision DOT arc DOT nasa DOT gov