Re: [7.2] R/W mount of / denied. Filesystem not clean - run fsck.

[Marat N.Afanasyev]

Helmut Schneider wrote:

Marat N.Afanasyev <ama...@ksu.ru> wrote:

Helmut Schneider wrote:

Hi,



- I was unable to cope with it but booting from a live CD.
- the message appeared ~ 1000 times and then the kernel paniced.





Thanks, Helmut

after upgrading a few systems yesterday from 7.1-RELEASE to 7.2-RELEASE on one machine I got the error above. The problem was that After fsck'ing / with the help of the live CD I rebooted the machine but now I got the same problem with /home. How can I avoid such issues (except of not letting the machine crash)? Is there a way to boot at least to single user mode and then run fsck (I was at home, far away from the machine, not funny)?

if there's a problem with home you can change

PermitRoorLogin yes

in /etc/ssh/sshd_config, restart sshd, login as root, unmount home and

There is no 'login' when / cannot be mounted...

fsck it. if you have another machine in there, you can try to make a serial console. or install a ip-kvm extender ;)

I do have such thing (IBM Blade Center) but I'm looking for something to avoid the situation above. Something that lets me at least boot into single user mode.

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SY, Marat

if you have an ip-kvm you can drop into single-user and fsck any disk you have. all you need to do is to choose 'single user' from beastie-menu. or start kernel with -s parameter

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