I installed RH5 about four weeks ago. I have worked through many of the
common configuration tasks and until last night had a system which was
working as I had wanted. This includes working PPP, mail configuration,
custom XFree86Config modelines, etc. It all worked reliably until last
night. Here's how things unfolded.
I was using minicom to connect to the USR/3Com line test number and all was
fine. Then I tried to connect to my ISP PPP account to test my connection
and in a shell window showing a 'tail -f /var/log/messages ' I saw the
message that there was a problem with CHAP-secrets. The thing is that my
ISP doesn't use CHAP or PAP and I haven't used those in my PPP dialing
setup. In addition the messages showed that I was still expecting a ogin:
which didn't seem to be coming. When I did ppp-off, the ogin: was found by
the dialer script. I thought rebooting might be helpful (this is probably
wrong but almost a reflex from using non-Linux systems) and this is when
thing really fell apart.
The system could not shutdown. I got the message 'no processes left at this
init level' four times in a row and then total lock-up. Doing an Alt-F9
showed a screenfull of error messages of disk errors which I believe
indicated that nothing could be read. After using the front panel reset
button I get I/O error after the LILO: linux; loading linux.
I tried using the RH boot and supplemental disk in rescue mode to rum
e2fsck but no matter which superblock I specify using the -b flag it says
the superblock is corrupt.
Could this be a hard drive hardware failure? Any help would be appreciated.
If I can't recover within a day or so I will reinstall.
Ron Golan
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