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RE: [PLUG] Arrrrrgggggghhhhhh!
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Title: RE: [PLUG] Arrrrrgggggghhhhhh!
Will it boot to single user mode?
<tab> <tab> X when it asks which to boot up
(or was just for Lilo in the 7.x series)?
Once your in single user mode, there shouldn't
be any login issues, your just in.
George
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Eric Lucas [mailto:eric@lucii.org]
>Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 10:20 AM
>To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
>Subject: [PLUG] Arrrrrgggggghhhhhh!
>
>
>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
>--
>Eric Lucas
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