FC4 Crached / Hached or what it is, --- please help
Jeff Vian
jvian10 at charter.net
Fri Nov 25 22:41:04 UTC 2005
On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 12:31 -0500, Anil Kumar Sharma wrote:
> Hello list,
> I Booted nicely into FC4 / KDE, and was trying to set ALSA sound
> parameters to make the 6 channels work correctly (they were going here
> ,there and no-where) then I saw this
>
> 1. while opening konsole and error appeared (twice)
>
> fgrep: error while lkoading sharedlibrary, /lib/libpcre.so.0: cannot
> read file data: invalid argument
> fgrep: error while lkoading sharedlibrary, /lib/libpcre.so.0: cannot
> read file data: invalid argument
>
> but allowed to work in konsole
>
> 2. then there was a full lockup, no mouse, no keboard response,
> therefore no virtual console also. I had to press reset button.
>
> 3. Then FC4 refused to boot; boot process starts and comes upto a
> stage and hangs
> following is as best I could note as seen on screen
>
> quote
> ...
> ...
> INIT: Version 2.85 booting
> fgrep: error while lkoading sharedlibrary, /lib/libpcre.so.0: cannot
> read file data: invalid argument
> fgrep: error while lkoading sharedlibrary, /lib/libpcre.so.0: cannot
> read file data: invalid argument
> setting defaull font (latarcyrheb-sun16): OK
> Welcome to fgrep: error while lkoading sharedlibrary,
> /lib/libpcre.so.0: cannot read file data: invalid argument
> fgrep: error while lkoading sharedlibrary, /lib/libpcre.so.0: cannot
> read file data: invalid argument
> ...
> ...
> ...
> Initializing hardware ...
>
> Unquote
> here it hangs like ctrl-alt-del not working but numlok capsloak
> working, onlyway to proceed is reset button
>
> Computer is working as I writing this via knoppix....CD
>
> I have the root on /dev/sda3 (ext3) partition and rest of linux on
> /dev/sda4 LVM2
>
did you run fsck on /dev/sda3 and on the logical volumes
within /dev/sda4 while booted to knoppix?
The error is while loading the OS, and does not appear to have anything
to do with /home.
>
> # sfdisk -l
> Disk /dev/sda: 9733 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
> Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0
>
> Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System
> /dev/sda1 * 0+ 1215 1216- 9767488+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/sda2 1216 7820 6605 53054662+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
> /dev/sda3 7821 7836 16 128520 83 Linux
> /dev/sda4 7837 9732 1896 15229620 8e Linux LVM
> /dev/sda5 1216+ 2593 1378- 11068753+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/sda6 2594+ 4505 1912- 15358108+ b W95 FAT32
> /dev/sda7 4506+ 7820 3315- 26627706 b W95 FAT32
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> So dear friends help me recover the LVM /home partition
> Please tell me how
> 1. to repair through the rescue disk..
> 2. to mount LVM in this case
>
>
>
> I suspect that as soon as a request to access /dev/sda4 is made the
> error appears; I may be inaccurate.
>
> --
> Anil Kumar Shrama
>
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