Suse 9.1 crash and wont reboot
Hi I have a bad day. One of the data server is down. First it was not accessible (samba, appletalk, ssh, ftp...) so I plugged in a screen and try to log in directly, thinking of a network problem. There was no kernel panic (no flashng leds on the keyboard). But when I tried to type it started ok then stopped. Complete freeze. I had to hard reboot and then GRUB did not find is way out. I have put the CD1 (Suse 9.1) on and tried to boot from the installed OS... without success : It was a neverending "system analyses". The computer has 2 SATA disks (unknow brand, sold with the DELL box). System was installed on an reiserfs partition (/). home/ is on a software raid 1 partition (dev/md0) formatted reiserfs. I suspect a filesystem corruption. Any ideas ? BTW... I just started Automatic Repair in YaST System repair... It found /dev/sdb and /dev/md0 but failed to find swap partition and dev/sda ... Does that mean that the first harddrive is out of service ? Help appreciated Thank you -- __________________________________ Matthias Titeux, PhD INSERM U563 - CPTP Departement de Genetique fonctionnelle des maladies des epitheliums Batiment Lefebvre - 2eme etage CHU Purpan Avenue de Grande Bretagne 31059 Toulouse Cedex 03 FRANCE --------------- Tel: 33 (5) 62 74 45 03 _________________________________
Matthias Titeux wrote:
Hi I have a bad day. One of the data server is down. First it was not accessible (samba, appletalk, ssh, ftp...) so I plugged in a screen and try to log in directly, thinking of a network problem. There was no kernel panic (no flashng leds on the keyboard). But when I tried to type it started ok then stopped. Complete freeze. I had to hard reboot and then GRUB did not find is way out. I have put the CD1 (Suse 9.1) on and tried to boot from the installed OS... without success : It was a neverending "system analyses".
The computer has 2 SATA disks (unknow brand, sold with the DELL box). System was installed on an reiserfs partition (/). home/ is on a software raid 1 partition (dev/md0) formatted reiserfs.
I suspect a filesystem corruption.
Any ideas ?
BTW... I just started Automatic Repair in YaST System repair... It found /dev/sdb and /dev/md0 but failed to find swap partition and dev/sda ... Does that mean that the first harddrive is out of service ?
Help appreciated
Thank you
I would say so, you can swap /dev/sda and /dev/sdb over, making sda slave and sdb master just to confirm. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Keen licensed Private Pilot Retired IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks
Thanks Sid for the help, I will try that out tomorrow. For now, the Automatic system repair is still trying to analyse/repair the filesystem on dev/md0. It seems stuck on sbin/debureiserfs /dev/md0 for a while. I will let him work all night long and if it does not work, I will try to have access to the filesystem with a Knoppix I have got (hope there is the SATA driver on it !) Thanks again Regards Matthias Le mardi 6 Septembre 2005 17:56, Sid Boyce a écrit :
Matthias Titeux wrote:
Hi I have a bad day. One of the data server is down. First it was not accessible (samba, appletalk, ssh, ftp...) so I plugged in a screen and try to log in directly, thinking of a network problem. There was no kernel panic (no flashng leds on the keyboard). But when I tried to type it started ok then stopped. Complete freeze. I had to hard reboot and then GRUB did not find is way out. I have put the CD1 (Suse 9.1) on and tried to boot from the installed OS... without success : It was a neverending "system analyses".
The computer has 2 SATA disks (unknow brand, sold with the DELL box). System was installed on an reiserfs partition (/). home/ is on a software raid 1 partition (dev/md0) formatted reiserfs.
I suspect a filesystem corruption.
Any ideas ?
BTW... I just started Automatic Repair in YaST System repair... It found /dev/sdb and /dev/md0 but failed to find swap partition and dev/sda ... Does that mean that the first harddrive is out of service ?
Help appreciated
Thank you
I would say so, you can swap /dev/sda and /dev/sdb over, making sda slave and sdb master just to confirm. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Keen licensed Private Pilot Retired IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks
-- __________________________________ Matthias Titeux, PhD INSERM U563 - CPTP Departement de Genetique fonctionnelle des maladies des epitheliums Batiment Lefebvre - 2eme etage CHU Purpan Avenue de Grande Bretagne 31059 Toulouse Cedex 03 FRANCE --------------- Tel: 33 (5) 62 74 45 03 _________________________________
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