Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi Path: utzoo!censor!comspec!tvcent!lethe!geac!maccs!apcah2!root From: root@apcah2.Eng.McMaster.CA (Apcah2 Super-User) Subject: Filesystem weirdness under IRIX 3.2 Message-ID: <1990Oct3.215824.28991@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> Reply-To: root@apcah2.eng.mcmaster.ca (Apcah2 Super-User) Organization: Dept. of Chem. Eng., McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario Distribution: na This is on a Personal Iris running IRIX 3.2. Can anyone explain what's happened here, or better yet how I can fix it? Script started on Tue Oct 2 10:36:12 1990 xtliris:root [33] # cd /usr/people/yang /usr/people/yang xtliris:root [34] # find . -print > /dev/null find: stat() failed: ./gprlsa: No such file or directory [ ... many similar messages deleted for brevity ... ] find: stat() failed: ./temp: No such file or directory xtliris:root [35] # ls -ali total 1205 5840 drwxr-xr-x 11 yang user 1024 Aug 30 13:30 ./ 581 drwxr-xr-x 14 bin bin 512 Sep 18 08:27 ../ 5842 -rwxr-xr-x 1 yang user 445 Aug 30 13:11 .cshrc* 13695 -rwxr-xr-x 1 yang user 402 Jul 18 10:30 .cshrc~* 5850 -rw-rw-rw- 1 yang user 9 Oct 1 11:43 .gamma 5851 -rw-rw-rw- 1 yang user 1536 Oct 1 11:43 .gamtables 6138 -rwxr-xr-x 1 yang user 332 Aug 30 13:13 .login* 5841 -rwxr-xr-x 1 yang user 290 Jul 18 10:27 .login~* 5843 -rwxr-xr-x 1 yang user 577 Mar 6 1990 .profile* 5844 drwxr-xr-x 2 yang user 3584 Sep 20 01:37 .workspace/ 5853 drwxrwxrwx 3 yang user 512 Oct 1 11:45 WorkSpace/ 13729 -rw-r--r-- 1 yang user 126 Jul 18 10:32 biograf.def 13726 -rw-r--r-- 1 yang user 126 Jul 18 10:31 biograf.def~ 13727 -rwxr--r-- 1 yang user 425 Jul 18 10:32 biograf_cshrc.doc* 13698 -rwxr--r-- 1 yang user 425 Jul 18 10:31 biograf_cshrc.doc~* 13728 -rwxr--r-- 1 yang user 728 Jul 18 10:32 biograf_run.csh* 13725 -rwxr--r-- 1 yang user 728 Jul 18 10:31 biograf_run.csh~* 5848 drwxrwxrwx 3 yang user 1536 Sep 20 22:48 dumpster/ 5943 drwxrwxrwx 1 yang user 512 Aug 20 13:11 gprlsa/ 5974 -rwxr-xr-x 1 yang user 292888 Feb 1 1990 lmode* 5971 -rw-rw-rw- 1 yang user 1104 Feb 1 1990 lmode.f 13731 -rw-r--r-- 1 yang user 166 Jul 18 10:41 logfile.macro 13730 -rw-r--r-- 1 yang user 166 Jul 18 10:39 logfile.macro~ 5935 drwxrwxrwx 1 yang user 512 Aug 20 13:11 maps/ 5975 -rwxr-xr-x 1 yang user 292884 Feb 1 1990 pmode* 5972 -rw-rw-rw- 1 yang user 885 Feb 1 1990 pmode.f 6263 drwxr-xr-x 2 yang user 512 Jul 20 05:00 ribbon/ 16550 drwxr-xr-x 2 yang user 512 Jun 17 15:01 search/ 6323 drwxrwxrwx 2 yang user 1536 Jul 18 01:22 searchre/ 6424 drwxr-xr-x 2 yang user 512 Jun 5 23:34 temp/ 5904 drwxr-xr-x 2 yang user 2048 Aug 28 15:59 tom/ 14563 drwxr-xr-x 2 yang user 4096 Jul 24 11:51 vaxprog/ xtliris:root [36] # cd maps /usr/people/yang/maps xtliris:root [37] # ls -ali total 2 5935 drwxrwxrwx 1 yang user 512 Aug 20 13:11 ./ 6207 drwxrwxrwx 5 yang user 512 Aug 23 15:45 ../ xtliris:root [38] # cd .. /usr/people/yang xtliris:root [39] # ls -ali total 5 6207 drwxrwxrwx 5 yang user 512 Aug 23 15:45 ./ 6164 drwxr-xr-x 8 greg user 512 May 25 11:58 ../ 6208 -rwxrwxrwx 1 greg user 0 May 1 16:07 .dumpster* 11100 drwxrwxrwx 2 greg user 512 Aug 23 15:45 convex/ 17496 drwxrwxrwx 2 greg user 512 Aug 23 15:45 iris/ 5868 drwxrwxrwx 11 greg user 512 Aug 23 15:45 xplor/ xtliris:root [40] # exit xtliris:root [41] # script done on Tue Oct 2 10:37:19 1990 As you can see the inode for .. in the maps directory is wrong! How can this be?? What sort of magic allows one to cd somedir ; cd .. and end up in a totally different directory?? Will a single user boot, with a manual fsck fix this? Is the workspace doing this? If so, I'm getting rid of it! E. John Benjamins BITNET: JOHNB@MCMASTER Computer and Information Services, Internet: johnb@sscvax.cis.mcmaster.ca ABB 131, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada "You can't chop down a symmetry" -- Jane Siberry