January 2004 Archives

Every day that I look in my RSS feed list I get freaked out by seeing my name day in and day out.

Thanks for freaking me out Kenny.....

I want to take this opportunity to personally thank all of the wonderful people at Sun that ARE THE REASON THAT I AM STILL AT THE OFFICE AT 1030P.

Disksuite blows.

That is all.

EDIT: It's now 11:30P and it doesn't look like I will be out of here until 1230 or 1A. **sigh**

I have a server that crapped on me forcing me to reboot it. Upon reboot, I get the following "friendly" error:

mount: the state of /dev/md/dsk/d5 is not okay
        and it was attempted to be mounted read/write
mount: Please run fsck and try again
mount: the state of /dev/md/dsk/d3 is not okay
        and it was attempted to be mounted read/write
mount: Please run fsck and try again
mount: the state of /dev/md/dsk/d6 is not okay
        and it was attempted to be mounted read/write
mount: Please run fsck and try again

So I do what every good little Solaris admin does--follow the directions. I reboot into SINGLE USER MODE (emphasis Solaris) to run fsck. Here's what I get:

red:~# fsck -m /dev/md/rdsk/d3
** /dev/md/rdsk/d3
ufs fsck: sanity check: /dev/md/rdsk/d3 okay

The sanity check looks okay, so let's see if there really is anything else... full fsck...

red:~# fsck /dev/md/rdsk/d3
** /dev/md/rdsk/d3
** Last Mounted on /mx01
** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes
** Phase 2 - Check Pathnames
** Phase 3 - Check Connectivity
** Phase 4 - Check Reference Counts
** Phase 5 - Check Cyl groups
48997 files, 2018615 used, 4565662 free (42742 frags, 565365 blocks,  0.6% fragmentation)

Hmm... looks ok. Let's try to mount it, shall we?

red:/# mount /mx01
mount: the state of /dev/md/dsk/d3 is not okay
        and it was attempted to be mounted read/write
mount: Please run fsck and try again

POS Sun. Is it ok, or isn't it? Make up your mind, and tell me why mount thinks it's broken, but fsck thinks its fine.
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This past weekend we celebrated Christmas #4 with my wife's immediate family (parents, siblings, other relatives in the Chicago area). We do this because we spend Christmas with her extended family around the actual date. Both of her parents families live in Indiana (Evansville and Indianapolis).

Anyway, the real story... It seems that the theme for us this year for the final Christmas was stuff to help us with our house. We got tons of things to hang on the wall. One of the neat things was a framed Paint the Hall Orange poster--sorry Kenny, the dog chewed up the one you got me for my birthday.

The biggest thing of them all, and probably the most immediately helpful was the gift we got from her siblings. They got us a Roomba. For those of you that don't know what a Roomba is, it is an automatic floor vaccuum. It bounces around a room in a pseudo random pattern until it has covered every inch. It does a pretty good job, too. Much like a TiVo "changes the way you watch TV", a Roomba "changes the way you clean."

From a geek perspective it's fun to just watch the thing figure its way around a room. Yeah, it gets some places more than once, and doesn't do a perfect job in the corners (but it does pretty good considering that it's round), but it definately gets everything. Watching it travel along a wall reminds me of the car that I built in ECE 110 lab that followed a white track with sensors. It slightly bounced back and forth along the track as it went a little left or a little right.

Is this the next mass wedding gift for those that already have a TiVo (I think most of our unmarried friends have one now)? We'll find out...