On Wednesday 09 March 2005 04:22 pm, Tim Wilson wrote: > Now I've seen something like this screen before. We entered the root > password and manually fscked the partitions. They all come back clean now. > I'm puzzled by the segfault with rcS. There is no line 243 in that file. I > assume the actual problem is one of the initscripts that get called by rcS. fsck is a bit fragile sometimes, especially with hardware errors (!) > I'm also seeing weirdness with the mount command. I am manually mounting > some partitions, but they're not showing up when I run 'mount'. I know that > they're mounted because I can traverse the directories. That happens when / is read-only (mount just reads /etc/mtab). It will remount read-only on errors, so that may be part of it. > Can anyone shed any light on this? I don't want to sound too panicked, but > this is a pretty critical system for us and I need to get it back up ASAP. Boot with KNOPPIX or some other live or rescue CD and fsck everything. Then run dpkg -C or some debian command to check packages. Anticipate 'Plan B' on plundering the drive and having to re-install the server. -- -dave Dave Carlson <dave at math.umn.edu> Systems Administrator School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota http://www.math.umn.edu PGP/GPG Fingerprint: C3D0 9962 1E98 B742 132D 0E1A CE11 7C4B 5309 97A7 (visit http://www.gnupg.org for more information) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20050309/64968d71/attachment.pgp