os doesn't boot, "filesystem needs repair."

[paula at scripps.edu]

Hi Mark,
No, this machine was a date cruncher and whatever these researchers do
here at tsri.  Fortunately, this was not a mail server or a home server,
but several of the labs here at tsri use this machine for their research. 
I got a lot of thank yous when I walked in the lab and told them it was up
and running to go try it.  I'm ashamed that it took me 12 days to do an
hour or two fix from cds.  Thank you, I assumed it was because the
filesystem was not umounted, although the os never made it up.  Why do
they even have that option.  Many thanks again Mark.  I'm at the RH summit
as I speak/type.  Are you at the summit?  If anyone is at the summit and
wants to talk, just email me.  Thanks again Mark,
Paula





> Paula J. Lindsay wrote:
>> Hi Mr. Roth,
>
> Just mark.
>
>> I fixed my problem.  I was going to painfully reinstall, but when I
>> booted
>> from the cd, I was able to see the filesystem (ext3).  I decided to take
>> a
>> chance and umount each filesystem and do an fsck on each one.  The / is
>> the
>> one that was in bad shape.  Lost inodes, lost packets belonging to
>> inodes,
>> stuff I'd never heard of before.  I did an fsck and in about 40 minutes
>> the
>>  filesystem was repaired and I was able to do a reboot and get the
>> system
>> back up.  Can I ask you why the filesystem didn't repair when it asked
>> me
>> from the single user before bringing up the filesystem, just the kernel
>
> By booting from the CD, root on your hard drive was not mounted, nor were
> you
> using libraries and programs from the hard drive. Also, to do an fsck, you
> need
> to have it unmounted.
>
> I'm *very* glad you're back up. That would have been a nightmare, not to
> mention everything you might have lost. (Or did you have /home, and other
> places with your/your users' data, on another partition than root?)
>
>> controller?  Also, I checked the logs and it seems like the trouble
>> started
>> when ypxfrd and ypbind went down.   That doesn't make sense to me.
>> Well, at
>
> I think you're seeing effects, not causes.
>
>> least I can go to the summit and not worry about it.  Many thanks for
>> answering me, I really really appreciate your help. Paula
>
> That's why we're all on this list - to help each other, and share
> knowledge.
>
> 	mark
>
> --
> redhat-list mailing list
> unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request at redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe
> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
>