Re: root filesystem corrupted, can't log in

2000-04-25 Thread montefin
Bob, np. I intended to use -r. Below your post is a response to the same question from another list member. All I can say is it seems to work for me. Next time I'll try it again without the -r. I'm sure I'll have occasion to. montefin "Robert D. Hilliard" wrote: > > montefin <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: root filesystem corrupted, can't log in

2000-04-25 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
montefin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > NOTE: If you get a large block of type that mentions a SUPERBLOCK error > and tells you to do the '-b 8193' thing. Well, that's how you got that > message, right? Instead I did this: > > e2fsck -r /dev/ (my /var looks like /dev/hda7 With e2fspro

Re: root filesystem corrupted, can't log in

2000-04-25 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 01:26:11PM +0200, Philip Lehman wrote: > > First thing I did when the machine came up again was upgrading from > 2.2.9 to 2.2.14. This is scary. > > BTW: What's the best way to keep up with glitches like this if you > don't follow devel and kernel lists? I think probably

Re: root filesystem corrupted, can't log in

2000-04-25 Thread Philip Lehman
On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 02:47:37PM -0700, montefin wrote: >> >> It seems the linux kernels from about 2.2.7 thru 2.2.13, and only on IDE >> boxes, had a recurrent filesystem corruption problem. I was on kernel >> 2.2.12 when I upgraded

Re: root filesystem corrupted, can't log in

2000-04-25 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 02:47:37PM -0700, montefin wrote: > Philip, > > To follow up on Nathan's reply, and only because when I upgraded Red Hat > from 6.0 to 6.1, I earned the dubious title Mr. Fsck-it, here's my 2 > cents: > > It seems the linux kernels from about 2.2.7 thru 2.2.13, and only on

Re: root filesystem corrupted, can't log in

2000-04-24 Thread montefin
Philip, To follow up on Nathan's reply, and only because when I upgraded Red Hat from 6.0 to 6.1, I earned the dubious title Mr. Fsck-it, here's my 2 cents: It seems the linux kernels from about 2.2.7 thru 2.2.13, and only on IDE boxes, had a recurrent filesystem corruption problem. I was on kern

Re: root filesystem corrupted, can't log in

2000-04-24 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 10:34:04PM +0200, Philip Lehman wrote: [ snip ] > I'm desperate because the same happens when I boot from a rescue > disk. What can I do about that? Any help will definetly be very > much appreciated... Boot from the rescue disk (and root disk if you use potato) as if you

root filesystem corrupted, can't log in

2000-04-24 Thread Philip Lehman
My potato workstation suffered from a power failure and it seems like the partition holding the root filesystem was damaged. When I boot, fsck forces a check and reports an error about duplicate blocks (I'm sorry that I can't provide the precise error messages, but there is no way to catch them).