Greg Byshenk <free...@byshenk.net> wrote:
On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 11:50:11AM +0200, Helmut Schneider wrote:
Marat N.Afanasyev <ama...@ksu.ru> wrote:
Helmut Schneider wrote:
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
- I was unable to cope with it but booting from a live CD.
- the message appeared ~ 1000 times and then the kernel paniced.
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)?
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.
If you had access to the console (I'm guessing you did in order to use the
live CD), did you try booting into single-user from the beastie menu?
Yes, I did, same issue, screen filled up with message above, after ~5
minutes kernel panic.
IME, failure to fsck the / menu should drop automatically to single-user
at the console, but if this fails, then you should be able to choose
single-user boot from the menu, which will then not try to run fsck or
mount / rw. From there you should be able to fsck and remount /, as well
as /home or anything else. This will fail if there is something horribly
wrong with /, causing a failure even when / is mounted ro, but then there
may be no good solution.
There were only 2 or 3 inodes broken, fix from live CD ran smoothly.
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