Jerome Lyles wrote:
On Wednesday 13 October 2004 09:46 pm, Jerome Lyles wrote:
On Wednesday 13 October 2004 05:38 pm, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Patrick Shanahan
[10-13-04 19:46]: boot until the system stops, I believe declaring that root is mounted readonly.
from the command-line as root: remount /dev/hdb2
found another remount command: mount -n -w -o remount /dev/sda2 /
init 5
I wiped the / partition clean. Reloaded Suse 9.1 from the DVD and updated online and rebooted. No problem. Then I used a suse mirror and the Yast system upgrade module to upgrade to KDE 3.3.1 and rebooted. Problems. Fsck fails (again) and prompts for command line root password just like before I wiped and reloaded everything. So I run fsck.reiserfs --fix-fixable on my / filesystem mounted read only, no corruptions found, just like before. So I login and run mount. I've got two instances of the / filesystem again! So I did 'init 5' logged in as my usual user and ran startx, this time startx crashes.
I've updated KDE before and this never happened. The only difference this time is that when update was done and I was asked to insert the dvd I did. Usually I select skip. This time I didn't assuming that doing what the program asked wouldn't hurt, was I wrong??
Does anyone have a clue why mount shows / mounted twice? Could loading software off the dvd do this? Incompatibilities? I would like to solve this without having to start all over again, who knows how many times. I lost some data but I really thought I had put this problem behind me (This time I'm backed up to the hilt). I thought I was last time too but I used the damaged system to make the backup and after I wiped the damaged drive and tried to use the backup the backup was blank.
Amazed to be here again, Jerome
I've seen the mounted twice problem before and a corrupted filesystem that needed to be reformatted, but never followed it up as my problems were beginning to look very much like hardware. Turned out I had a bad motherboard (IDE controller) and a bad CPU, both new. I would suggest booting and running knoppix/SuSE live CD for a while, if you can get hold of a CD, to see if anything complains running reiserfsck and copying directories from CD to HD. The suspect has to be hardware, the software in question doesn't behave that way, I have 9.1 x86 running on this repaired box, a P-II 333 laptop and 9.1 x86_64 running on a XP3000+ laptop, all running sweetly. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer =====LINUX ONLY USED HERE=====