Filesystem trouble

From: Eirik Finne (eiriks_finne_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 03/25/05

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    To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 04:44:20 +0000

    Hi,

    I recently had a strange crash on my Dell Inspirion 9100 running FreeBSD 5.3
    stable. I'm using Gnome 2.8 and gdm. I was logged in as root and when I
    logged out instead of being greeted by the gdm login screen I got an error
    "gdm has repeatedly failed to start X". Switching to ttys1 in the wane hope
    of getting a terminal login I saw another error saying "Getty getting too
    many repeats on ttys1 sleeping for 30 sec" or something like that. This is
    when I rebooted the system.
    When the system booted I got the following: "libexec libetid.4.so not found"
    type the full path to your shell or press Enter for /bin/sh. I then switched
    to /rescue/sh. After mounting / I discover that /lib was missing and /usr
    and /var were present but empty!
    No logs no nothing :(
    I then ran fsck -f and when it ran trough ad03e /usr and ad03f /var it
    reported tons of files present and in use. It didn't give any errors. But I
    can't see any of the files in these directories.
    Any Ideas how to proceed from here?

    Best Regards,

    Eirik Sveen Finne

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