HELP! after power loss, system boots through mount of root fs then stalls

[Adam Williams]

well try it and see what happens :)

Christopher Welton wrote:

>No, I did not.
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>On Wed, 2004-05-26 at 18:36, Adam Williams wrote:
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>>in rescue mode did you do e2fsck -c -y /dev/sdx#
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>>>I run a RH 7.3 installation on a Compaq Proliant 6500 with dual pentium
>>>266Mhz processors, approx. 630MB ram and a hardware SMART-2DH RAID
>>>controller and array. All file systems are ext3. 
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>>>The server has been in service for a couple of years now. From time to
>>>time we will lose power in our office or have another situtation that
>>>causes the server to lose power without a proper shutdown. We had such a
>>>situation today. 
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>>>Usually the server reboots to runlevel 5 without a problem. However,
>>>today the server rebooted to the point in the boot process just after
>>>mounting the root filesystem. It then stalls indefinitely and does not
>>>continue to boot. 
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>>>I used a recovery CD to boot into a rescue shell. Once there I
>>>successfully mounted all the partitions on all drives and examined the
>>>files successfully, so the data, filesystem and hardware all look good.
>>>The filesystems were mounted ext2, not ext3.
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>>>At this point, my suspicions are that some portion of the kernel
>>>required for booting was damaged during the power-loss shutdown or that
>>>the ext3 journal was damaged in such a way as to block booting. 
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>>>I need suggestions on possible causes of the problem and, better yet,
>>>possible solutions.
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>>>I'm cross-posting this message on the RH 7.3 list.
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