Question, all. Had a Gentoo web server. Was humming along great for 3
months. One morning, I went to ssh into it and it denied me access.
Mind you, the website hosted by the server was still running. So I
walked over to the console and went to log in. All logins were denied,
even root. So I rebooted and attempted to enter single-user mode by
passing "1" to the kernel command line from GRUB. And it loaded the
kernel. And then stopped with the error "/sbin/init: not found."
After I booted off the Gentoo livecd, I found that the contents of /bin,
/sbin, and /lib were missing, and that key config files in /etc (like
passwd, group, and shadow) had turned to total garbage (random
characters). So I extracted a new stage3 tarball in the root directory
and re-created the config files. It booted fine and ran for about 10
minutes. Then, after having ssh'd into it successfully twice, it again
locked me out. When I tried a console login, I got the error "udev:
device node /hda3 not found" and it was locked hard. Another reboot got
me to the "/sbin/init: not found" error again. Now I have completely
repartitioned the drive and started over. It SEEMS to be working. The
drive is brand new. Running with recommended settings (UDMA 4). I've
never had any I/O errors, no access problems, etc. It just randomly
started deleting key files after a few minutes of activity. Any clues?
BTW, the drive tools provided by Western Digital find no errors with the
drive.
-Josh Armstrong
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