Re: Cannot mout proc

["A. John Peters" <ajpeters ajpconsult com>]

On 6/5/03 8:44 PM, "Bob McClure Jr" <robertmcclure earthlink net> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 07:22:06PM -0500, A. John Peters wrote:
>> I was running fine.  Made some changes and rebooted.  Got message that it
>> couldn¹t mount /proc  type commannd mount proc proc /proc.... And then said
>> I have a bad fstab.
>> Will not let me go into single user mode.
>> 
>> When I tryied to type any thing I cout a long message with the term oh F**K
>> (real spelling supplied by developer)
>> 
>> This system is remote, so I will not be able to run rescue for a couple of
>> days.
>> 
>> Is this a BAD message.  Is my file system screwed up?  I can get more
>> details on the message next week if needed.  I was getting punchy 3 am today
>> and didn't write down all the details
>> 
>> John
> 
> Tell us more about your setup.  How do you get the described messages
> (and presumably the machine does not come up) when it is remote?
> 
> Yes, that information does have a very bad aroma.  Be prepared for a
> re-install and/or restore from backups.
> 
> Cheers,

I was physically at a a customer site.  It is about 160 miles from my
office.  

Redhat 9.0 with 2 NIC cards 80 mbytes of storage
Running samba, shorewall, apache for local intranet

Added 2nd NIC when I was there.  The system had been running for 9 am until
about 10 PM

 I had rebooted several times.

Last reboot I got the above message,  It happens right after enter I for
interactive.  (I have never been able to do that on this system, why:)


The swearing started in the micro code.

John