Filesystem check
PFJ
paul at all-the-johnsons.co.uk
Wed May 3 10:51:56 UTC 2006
On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 11:47 +0100, Rob Andrews wrote:
> On 03-May-2006 10:42.37 (BST), Emeric Maschino wrote:
> > Indeed, at startup, once the logical volumes are configured and
> > activated, my filesystem is checked but the check fails with the
> > following message:
> > e2fsck: Cannot continue, aborting.
> [snip]
> > Yesterday, I had the bad idea to finally enter the root password and
> > manually run fsck as requested. Of course, this ended up with a totally
> > corrupted filesystem.
> [snip]
> > Any hint ? This is on an Itanium workstation (ia64) and I don't know if
> > this problem also appears on other architectures.
>
> Yeah, I'm seeing this too on an x86_64 machine, so I guess it's not
> architecture specific. I also have LVM, and an earlier kernel package
> works Just Fine(tm). I think the version is 2.6.16-1.2157_FC6, but ICBW
> (I'm relying on memory here).
This appeared a few days back. If you remove the rhgb quiet from the
boot line, you should find it will boot happily - apparently, it's a
mkinitrd problem. It's fixed in the current rawhide release though.
The problem can be seen on any kernel past 2157 upto 2181
TTFN
Paul
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