Re: Help ! (disk problem)

["ABrady" <kcsmart kc rr com>]

Well, I'm at work and not anywhere near linux (phooey). But a quick search
on google got some info on some of the mount stuff, and particularly
problems associated with /proc/partitions and the use of labels (/usr
instead of /dev/hdb1 for instance) and errors that happen when the labels
can't be read.

This may not be what caused your problem and it may not be the fix. I'll be
glad to try helping later, once I get home, if someone else doesn't come up
with a suitable assist and this isn't the right answer. But, it's worth
looking into nonetheless.

It would appear your / has problems. Possibly /tmp overflowed and caused
some errors to be created (a major cause of disk problems that may not be
caught in time unless one watches the logs closely, because it may not
generate warnings about being full, if it's run by a daemon, to anyplace
other than a log). Maybe other portions of the root partition were harmed
and it now causes problems with writing to the drive (which you need to be
able to do to fix the drive). Possibly the drive is going bad. If you have
everything on one partition, or even just the root partition along with /dev
/boot /etc /var /tmp and so forth, and it is really tight for space, that's
likely the culprit.

If you can get back in at all and edit fstab, and if you know the layout of
your partitioning scheme, edit fstab and replace the labels with actual
devices/partitions and try it again. If you don't know, you can uses fdisk
to get a list of partitions, mount them one at a time to see what's in them
and use that to determine what's what (a method I've had to use a couple of
times). Either way, if you can, edit fstab and get rid of the labels and you
should be able to get back into the system. The labels are stored as part of
/proc and it's not able to find what it needs to mount the other stuff, the
webpage I'm looking at seems to imply.

This is the type of thing that turned me against the idea of labels from the
first time I saw them. I change them to actual partitions as soon as
installation is finished so I can know what is where in case there are
problems.

----- Original Message -----
From: Mikael Aronsson <mikael_aronsson mail bip net>
To: <seawolf-list redhat com>
Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2001 8:01 PM
Subject: Re: Help ! (disk problem)


> Hi !
>
> It cannot fix the file system, when it run e2fsck it complains that it
> cannot open /proc/partitions, and /proc is empty when I do "ls /proc" !!!
>
> I get the same thing is I try to mount the file system in rw mode "Could
not
> open /proc/partions",.
>
> Mikael
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "ABrady" <kcsmart kc rr com>
> To: <seawolf-list redhat com>
> Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2001 12:41 AM
> Subject: Re: Help ! (disk problem)
>
>
> > Ok, it starts fixing the filesystem and........what happens? Does it
> > complete? Does it fail and tell you to run it manually? Does it hang and
> > stop doing anything? Did you wait for it to complete or force a reboot?
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Mikael Aronsson <mikael_aronsson mail bip net>
> > To: <seawolf-list redhat com>
> > Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2001 7:35 PM
> > Subject: Help ! (disk problem)
> >
> >
> > > Hi !
> > >
> > > I have had my RedHat 7.1 running for a few weeks without problems now,
> but
> > > today it decided to give up, it was working fine without problems,
then
> I
> > > had to reboot to do a few things in Windows2000.
> > >
> > > When I rebooted again to get back to Linux (I am using a boot diskette
> for
> > > Linux) and it came to the Interactive startup part it started to print
> > > "dup2: Bad file descriptor" all over the place and then it starts the
> > repair
> > > mode with the file system in read only mode.
> > >
> > > As far as I can tell the file system is fine all files are there and
so
> on
> > > (at least the ones I checked ;-).
> > >
> > > I have no idea what the problem is, I know this is a bit thin on the
> > > information part so any tips on what I should look for are welcome.
> > >
> > > It's a redHat 7.1 using the SMP kernel.
> > > I have Windows2000 and Linux on the same disk and it's only the Linux
> > > partion that have problems so I don't think there is anything wrong
with
> > the
> > > disk itself.
> > >
> > > Mikael
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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