Filesystem check

[Emeric Maschino]

Le mercredi 03 mai 2006 à 11:47 +0100, Rob Andrews a écrit :
> 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).

You're right, the latest working kernel appears to be 2157 (see Paul's
message in this thread). As an alternative, he also suggests to remove
the quiet rhgb option from the boot parameters. I'll try it tonight.

Thanks for your help,

	Émeric