On 22 Apr, Ron Golan wrote:
> 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?
Yup... sounds like she's dieing (the harddrive, that is!)
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