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[PLUG] Arrrrrgggggghhhhhh!
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This is not, I repeat, NOT, from a Steven King novel:
I rebooted my Red Hat 9.0 workstation yesterday (no good reason.)
It now boots extremely slowly, pausing for 1 to 2 minutes at "automount"
and finally gives me the login screen. All attempts to login fail
(authentication). Root, me, it does not matter. I cannot log in to the
VC either: same reason.
Now it gets strange...
I boot the box with knoppix (great tool!) and find that my /dev/hda1 partition
(the root partition) looks like this: (this is just a piece of it...)
ls -laG /mnt/hda1
-r-xr-xr-x 1 knoppix 2282733701 Apr 29 1965 $???&
-r-xr-xr-x 1 knoppix 2232439179 Feb 3 1990 $???????.???
-rwxrwxrwx 1 knoppix 4294964960 Apr 10 1982 $?.$?
-r-xr-xr-x 1 knoppix 656698509 Sep 24 1914 $??.???
-rwxrwxrwx 1 knoppix 608471844 Jan 4 2010 $?.???
-rwxrwxrwx 1 knoppix 608486940 Jul 3 1913 $?:?????.???
dr-xr-xr-x 0 knoppix 8192 Dec 2 1970 $@?d$??<.$?"
dr-xr-xr-x 0 knoppix 8192 Jul 10 1914 $?d$?@?d.$??
-rwxrwxrwx 1 knoppix 4170523903 Apr 22 1981 '<?t?<??.???
drwxrwxrwx 73 knoppix 8192 Jan 1 1970 .
drwxr-xr-x 10 root 1024 Nov 11 09:20 ..
-rwxrwxrwx 1 knoppix 1103008377 Apr 8 2022 0t$??d$?.?0d
-rwxrwxrwx 1 knoppix 3223652258 Mar 28 1998 3?u???t..??$
drwxrwxrwx 0 knoppix 8192 Dec 12 1993 3???(?3?.t??
dr-xr-xr-x 0 knoppix 8192 Jan 4 1998 <?d$????.???
-rwxrwxrwx 1 knoppix 472149131 Sep 13 1909 ???)???
-rwxrwxrwx 1 knoppix 629452324 Dec 22 1939 ??$1?&??.?a8
-rwxrwxrwx 1 knoppix 3689562088 Apr 9 2014 ??$??&??.??&
-rwxrwxrwx 1 knoppix 348423167 Dec 2 1924 ??????d$.??4
-rwxrwxrwx 1 knoppix 2311073785 Jun 8 1982 ??>??1??.4h;
It reports that there are 187 Gig of files which is impossible on a
10 Gig drive :-(
It gets even stranger.... this is the root partition! How does it boot!!!
The boot partition is okay so I understand how it can start to boot but
how in the heck does it start X windows for example?
It's an ext3 file system - I've let the boot process try to correct it
(fsck, I presume) and it completes without complaining :-P It replays
the journal at one point but since I cannot log in I cannot see the logs
to find out what it thinks it's doing.
I'm google-ing to see if there is any information out there that will help.
Anyone here had any experience with anything like this? Suggestions?
Clues? :-) I'm guessing the file names and sizes are corrupt but not
the partition and sector information. Now how does THAT happen?
More importantly, how does one recover from that?
Eric
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Eric Lucas
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