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Re: [PLUG] Arrrrrgggggghhhhhh!
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Now that I'm home, it's easier to respond.
Thanks for the idea (Doh!)... I was able to boot in single use mode.
>From what I can see everything is fine. The goofy /dev/hda1 partition
is NOT the root partition as I thought but instead a 32 Megabyte
"island" that I used when this workstation was dual boot. The root,
home, and boot partitions are all fine. So, I have no idea why the darn
computer takes so long to boot (pausing ever so long at automount even
though I renamed auto.* files) and why I cannot authenticate to log in.
Question: Could it have to do with changing the IP range of the DHCP
server that serves this box from 192.168.0.N to 192.168.101.N ?
That's the only change I made. Seems harmless enough.
Eric
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 11:01:09AM -0500, George Gallen wrote:
> 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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# Eric Lucas
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# And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings...
# -- John Gillespie Magee Jr.
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