On Fri, 28 Nov 2008, PJ wrote:
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1. On boot up and just before the crash there were warnings of an
"interrupt storm" whatever that may mean and then there are messages
about bad file descriptor; and there is a WARNING / was not properly
dismounted (obviously because of the hardware problem) and "init
/bin/sh on /etc/rc terminated abnormally, going to single user
mode....
Last time I saw a "bad file descriptor" it was due to disk problems
caused by a power hit since I had no UPS on that machine. In that case I
was able to recover using the manufacturer's utility ("seatools" for the
Seagate disk).
2. on bootup, there is a warning - /etc/rc WARNING run_rc_command:
cannot run /usr/sbin/inetd
3. for login : in openpam_load_module (): no pam_opie.so found
4. login: pam_start(): system error
5. fsck gets wrong superblocks and cannot fix anything
6. When in single user mode, cannot access /usr or /var
So, now I get the feeling that the installation is completely screwed.
What I would like to recover is onle a bunch of files on the /usr
partition like the web stuff for apache and some other files.
All of these things smell like disk problems to me. But what do I know.
What are my options? is there a way I could access these files?
Booting from a live CD to recover your files to another drive has bee
suggested, and that's a good idea. Apart from that, I would try the
drive manufacturer's recovery tools before abandoning the system. Check
their website and see if they don't have a bootable ISO with some sort
of disk tools.
HTH, and good luck.
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Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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