Reboot filesystem corruption
If I reboot or shutdown and boot, the filesystem is corrupted and boot stalls midway thru starting up services. Suspsend to swap and resume does not have this problem. Booting the rescue disk and running fsck on both root and home partition (ext3 and ReiserFS, respectively) fixes the problem. It is fairly consistent when it stalls if I try booting again. But when changes after FS repair. fscking the root partion alone is not sufficient. fscking both partitions works. IBM T41 ThinkPad. SuSE 9.2. Has anyone seen anything like this and have a solution? TIA, Jeffrey
Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:
If I reboot or shutdown and boot, the filesystem is corrupted and boot stalls midway thru starting up services. Suspsend to swap and resume does not have this problem. Booting the rescue disk and running fsck on both root and home partition (ext3 and ReiserFS, respectively) fixes the problem. It is fairly consistent when it stalls if I try booting again. But when changes after FS repair. fscking the root partion alone is not sufficient. fscking both partitions works.
IBM T41 ThinkPad. SuSE 9.2.
Has anyone seen anything like this and have a solution?
TIA, Jeffrey
Not this exact problem, but lots of strange booting problems on Reiser filesystems. Problems included programs not running properly, corruption of the home directory and all sorts of startup problems that made no sense. Further strangeness: on one system, if I booted into the rescue system and wrote a file (any size) into /etc, then the system would boot. All the problems were hard drives going bad and I had little more warning than that. I don't know if this is helpful, but it's my experience. Good luck, Jim
On Monday 06 June 2005 21:16, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:
If I reboot or shutdown and boot, the filesystem is corrupted and boot stalls midway thru starting up services. Suspsend to swap and resume does not have this problem. Booting the rescue disk and running fsck on both root and home partition (ext3 and ReiserFS, respectively) fixes the problem. It is fairly consistent when it stalls if I try booting again. But when changes after FS repair. fscking the root partion alone is not sufficient. fscking both partitions works.
IBM T41 ThinkPad. SuSE 9.2.
Has anyone seen anything like this and have a solution?
TIA, Jeffrey
In the years i have been using Linux and Reiserfs this sort of problem is nearley always the precursor to disc failure , If you have any important bits on there get them off pronto is all i will say .. Pete . -- If Bill Gates had gotten LAID at High School do YOU think there would be a Microsoft ? Of course NOT ! You gotta spend a lot of time at your school Locker stuffing underware up your ass to think , I am going to take on the worlds Computer Industry -------:heard on Cyber Radio.:-------
Peter Nikolic wrote:
On Monday 06 June 2005 21:16, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:
If I reboot or shutdown and boot, the filesystem is corrupted and boot stalls midway thru starting up services. Suspsend to swap and resume does not have this problem. Booting the rescue disk and running fsck on both root and home partition (ext3 and ReiserFS, respectively) fixes the problem. It is fairly consistent when it stalls if I try booting again. But when changes after FS repair. fscking the root partion alone is not sufficient. fscking both partitions works.
IBM T41 ThinkPad. SuSE 9.2.
Has anyone seen anything like this and have a solution?
TIA, Jeffrey
In the years i have been using Linux and Reiserfs this sort of problem is nearley always the precursor to disc failure , If you have any important bits on there get them off pronto is all i will say ..
Pete .
I've also had a number of problems that turned out to be motherboards (Asus and Gigabyte), the IDE controllers had gone bad. On one I thought the HD was bad, so I tried booting from CD, that failed. I moved both on to the secondary IDE port and they were both OK. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Keen licensed Private Pilot Retired IBM Mainframes and Sun Servers Tech Support Specialist Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks
Peter Nikolic wrote:
On Monday 06 June 2005 21:16, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:
If I reboot or shutdown and boot, the filesystem is corrupted and boot stalls midway thru starting up services. Suspsend to swap and resume does not have this problem. Booting the rescue disk and running fsck on both root and home partition (ext3 and ReiserFS, respectively) fixes the problem. It is fairly consistent when it stalls if I try booting again. But when changes after FS repair. fscking the root partion alone is not sufficient. fscking both partitions works.
IBM T41 ThinkPad. SuSE 9.2.
Has anyone seen anything like this and have a solution?
TIA, Jeffrey
In the years i have been using Linux and Reiserfs this sort of problem is nearley always the precursor to disc failure , If you have any important bits on there get them off pronto is all i will say ..
Pete .
The problem could also be a bad controller or simply a bad cable. (Don't panic until you have to.) Is the corruption appearing on the same partition each time? (This question makes sense only if you have more than one non-swap partition.) Also see "man badblocks". -- A lot of us are working harder than we want, at things we don't like to do. Why? ...In order to afford the sort of existence we don't care to live. -- Bradford Angier
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