On Mon, 2001-09-24 at 09:47, gerard robin wrote: > On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 04:55:13PM -0500, Michael Heldebrant wrote: > > On Sat, 2001-09-22 at 18:37, Robin Gerard wrote: > > > > On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 10:18:27PM -0500, Michael Heldebrant wrote: > > > > On Thu, 2001-09-20 at 20:09, Robin Gerard wrote: > > > > > hello, > > > > > I run potato 2.2r2 and have upgraded partially > > > > > with woody. > > > > > All ran fine, but after my system crashed, linux > > > > > boot correctly until: > > > > > ttyS00 ..... > > > > > ttyS01 .... > > > > > > Desactiving swap...VM:do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd > > > > > VM:do_try_to_free_pages failed for swapoff > > > > > swapoff: /dev/hda2: cannot allocate memory > > > ...... > > > > > is it possible that i repair my system ? > > > > > > > > I'd run memtest on that sytem ASAP. It sounds to me like you're > > > > > running > > > > > out of memory at boot. > > > > > > memtest gives : > > > array a starts at 1075040264 > > > found a total of 0 error > > > > > > but when I use my rescue diskett "rescue" gives : > > > kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root from 01:00 > > > transaction block size = 512 > > > > > > rescue root=/dev/hda4 gives the previous result > > > > > > How can I solve this problem ? (i.e. mount root at the correct point) > > > > > > free gives : > > > total > > > Mem: 46192 (16+16+8+8) > > > swap: 88352 (~= 2xMem) > > > > > > but swap is unable for swapon. > > > > > > What can I do except reinstall potato ? > > > > > Try getting the system booted and make sure fdisk reports the swap disk > > as a swap disk partition type and then mkswap the correct device. Then > > try swapon -a assuming the swap partition is listed in fstab. > > > > That may allow swap to get running and therefore the rest of the system > > normally once you reboot or change runlevel to 2. > cfdisk: > hda1 boot primary WIN95 FAT32 1159.77 > hda2 primary linux swap 90.48 > hda3 primary linux ext2 41.13 > hda4 primary linux exte2 3085.13 > > mkswap /dev/hda2 : > Setting up swap version1, size=90472448 bytes > > swapon -s : > filename type size used priority > /dev/hda2 partition 88348 59388 -1 > > swapon -a : > swapon : /dec/hda2 : Device or resource busy > > swapoff -a : > VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd > VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for swapoff > swapoff : /dev/hda2 : Cannot allocate memory > > Apparently the swap partition is used (59388) but > swapon and swapoff cannot use it. > I don't find kswapd in my system. > I run dumpe2fs and I get : file system not clean. > My system seemed not completly broken but if there is > not solution never mind. > > I thank you for your help.
Well it looks at first glance like you're already getting your swap mounted and filled pretty quickly. I'd try to remake it then with mkswap -c to see if you have some bad blocks perhaps. I'd also make sure that you reboot without the swap loaded (from the rescue disk and bootstrap installer perhaps) so you have a better chance of fixing it should something be wrong with it. I'd also try to backup anything important. --mike
