stalled boot up process
Bob Kinney
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Thu Feb 22 04:04:28 UTC 2007
--- "Poole, John J" <john.j.poole at usa-spaceops.com> wrote:
> Is is possible the disk is full?
> John
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> 1. Re: stalled boot up process (Rick Stevens)
> 2. Re: YUM Errors !! (Micros50)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 14:07:27 -0800
> From: Rick Stevens <rstevens at vitalstream.com>
> Subject: Re: stalled boot up process
> To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
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> On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 21:54 -0800, daisy wrote:
> > My Red Hat linux system stalled one day and wouldn't allow any
> > keyboard input. We only use this machine as a web server and no one
> > was using the machine at the time.
> >
> > We tried to reboot the machine but couldn't. The boot up process just
> > stops The first time it stops at the following line,
> >
> > INIT: version 2.78 booting
> >
> >
> > At the second and third attempt to boot, the set up process stopped
> > at
> >
> > Setting hostname www.mycomputer.com
> >
> >
> > The last time it stopped at the following (Pressing Y did not do
> > anything. Boot up is still stalled.)
> >
> > Initializing USB Controller (usb-uhci)
> > Your system appears to have shut down uncleanly
> > Press Y within X seconds to force file system integrity check.
> >
> >
> > As shown the boot up process stops at different points. Does anybody
> > have any idea what the problem could be? Hardward? Software? I am
> > sorry but I have no idea how to proceed, and would be grateful for any
> > help.
>
> The system seems to think that it got shut down by a power failure or
> something of that nature. Try booting again, but when you see the
> "Press Y" prompt, press "Y". The system will attempt to do an fsck on
> your root drive (the one with the "/" filesystem). If it finds badness
> on the drive, it will try to repair it, but be warned that you may lose
> some data if it finds the disk corrupted.
>
> If pressing "Y" doesn't work, verify that the keyboard is functional.
> Press the CAPS LOCK key and verify that the LED lights up. If it
> doesn't, then you may have a hardware problem. It could be a bad
> keyboard, a bad motherboard, bad memory or a bad power supply. If the
> keyboard works at the BIOS prompts and such, then I'd try to boot off
> the first install CD and at the "boot:" prompt, enter "memtest86" to
> test your memory.
>
> If the memory passes the test, then I'd start looking at the power
> supply. If you know how to use a multimeter, check the power levels.
> You'd be amazed at how flakey a system can get with a bad power supply.
>
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> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 18:39:28 -0500
> From: Micros50 <micros50 at verizon.net>
> Subject: Re: YUM Errors !!
> To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
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> On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 09:44 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote:
> > On Sat, 2007-02-17 at 17:11 -0500, mylar wrote:
> > > Hello, I recently installed FC6 on my machine to replace an aging
> > > version of FC1. Thus far everything has gone well and I am very pleased
> > > with the performance of FC6 as well as it's many improvements over FC1.
> > > Quite naturally I have been using yum to perform package updates as well
> > > as to install additional packages that I need for my day to day work.
> > >
> > > That said I have recently run into a little problem when doing
> > > installations and updates with yum. The installation or update works
> > > fine, the proper packages get updated and/or installed but, I am also
> > > getting a bunch of error messages spit out at the end of each run if
> > > yum.
> > >
> > > The error message states:
> > >
> > > "db4 error(-30987) from dbcursor->c_get: DB_PAGE_NOTFOUND: Requested
> > > page not found."
> > > error:error:(-30897) getting "" records from Requireversion index".
> > >
> > > Okay, anyone know what this means. The package or update gets done fine
> > > but this message gets spit out a dozen times or more. Someone told me
> > > that the rpm database is probably corrupt and that I should run "rpm
> > > --rebuilddb". Any ideas if this will work ??
> >
> > It can't hurt. Here's the commands (as root, of course):
> >
> > # cd /var/lib/rpm
> > # rm -f __db*
> > # rpm --rebuilddb
> >
> > That's two underscore characters before the "db" in the second command.
> > In fact you may not want to use the "-f" option, but delete each file
> > itself. There will be three or four of them, depending on how many
> > updates you've done.
> >
> > Note that the rpm command will take a while to complete, so don't panic.
>
> Hi Rick.. Thanks for the help. I did a
>
> # rpm --rebuilddb
>
> and that seemed to correct the problem. However, when i did it I forgot
> to remove the "__db*" files. Should I have removed them first ?
> Everything seems to be working fine now I can install or update via rpm
> and yum, but I wonder if perhaps I should still do a
>
> # rm -f __db*
> # rpm --rebuilddb
>
> or should I leave everything alone at this point since it is working ? I
> am inclined to leave well enough alone at this point and go through the
> 3 steps in the event I experience such problems again.
>
>
> mylar
>
Could be a failing hard drive, too. Download and burn "drive fitness test"
from Hitachi's web site (it works with any brand of drive) and boot the
machine with it. It's a great non-destructive (data-safe) program.
--bc
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