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bookstack
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 Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2005 9:15 pm Post subject: Speechless startup after recovery... [SOLVED] |
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Hello, Everyone. Last night is a quite dramatic.
I decided to cope with the possible fs corruption in /dev/hda3, my fs root partition in reiserfs.
I know there is something wrong, I could not rm the working directory of ximian-office
in /var/tmp/portage/ due to the power outage when emerging the big guy. I have to rename
the work directory to work-bad, and successfully emerge the package.
OK, before I start, I need to backup everything. mkstage4.sh, then mv the backup to other partition.
Then I boot from liveCD, and :
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fsck.reiserfs /dev/hda3
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fsck suggest me to try --rebuild-tree operation. I know it would take a long time. Since I have the backup,
why not format the disk and restore using the backup. I did it.
Looks like everything is fine. Reboot, fail, the system would restart before launching the service, and then
kernel panic, complains fs is corrupted. When I reboot from the liveCD, OOps, the partition is corrupted,
I even could not mount it!
Tried twice. This time, I ddi a fsck after the restoration, nothing wrong. After reboot, no luck at all, the same
situation happens. It looks like the restoration also clone the fs error !
OK. then I format the disc, restore the backup, and fsck --rebuild-tree. All backup has been thrown to lost+found.
Anyway, I could recognize the directory contents and rename the directory. Reboot.
Then strange thing happens. There is no ouput of service, the system is speechless:
After loading the ndiswrapper, there is no more prompt.
Anyway, I could login. Considering the system consistance, I re-emrege everything, of coz using -K option
from compiled package by myself. Still silience.
Any ideas ?
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masseya
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| Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2005 11:32 pm Post subject: |
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Moving from Installing Gentoo.
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bookstack
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| Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2005 3:49 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks Masseya,
I am not quite sure whether it should belong to kernel section or not.
Another interesting thing is : ( snippet from dmesg )
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Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.8 (Thu Jan 13 09:39:32 20
05 UTC).
ALSA device list:
No soundcards found.
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But, I could hear the sound, adjust volumn using alsamixer |
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bookstack
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| Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2005 4:18 pm Post subject: |
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Could this be a problem, (snippet from dmesg):
| Code: | VFS: Mounted root (reiserfs filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 176k freed
Warning: unable to open an initial console.
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uman
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Yes it most certainly could. Sounds like your /dev files are missing. I think there is a script or something to fix that, but I don't know what it is. I hope this points you down the right track though.
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bookstack
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| Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2005 5:36 pm Post subject: |
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Yes. You are definitely right.
I doesnot backup /dev since I thought the udev would handle that.
After restoration, I just
And the system succeeded to reboot. Thanks.
BTW. How to create the device stubs, MAKEDEV ?
I'll try and report the result back. |
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uman
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| Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2005 5:42 pm Post subject: |
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Yep, I think MAKEDEV is what you are looking for. Not sure if Gentoo has it, I've never had to use it. I'm interested to know the results, please keep me posted.
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Udasai
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| Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2005 6:46 pm Post subject: |
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If you are using udev, the only devices you should need in the actual FS /dev are console and null, something like:
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mknod null 1 3
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bookstack
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| Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 4:17 am Post subject: |
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Bad luck.
I've tried all possible:
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MAKEDEV general
MAKEDEV std
MAKEDEV console
MAKEDEV tty
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the warning.still there. |
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bookstack
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| Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 4:35 am Post subject: |
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I should read the udev-howto:
Just follow the udev howto to cope with the known issue:
mknod console
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