> Hello,
> 
> I have Mandrake 7.1 at my home PC, with ReiserFS partitions.
> After a power shortage when the PC wasn't properly shut down, I can't
> normally boot the system.
> The kernel goes OK, but when it tries to remove .pid files from /var/run I
> get an "input-output error" for every file
> and after initializing random number generator the system hangs up.
> It appears that the problem is only with the /var/run directory.
> 
> I was able to boot in maintenance mode, but I haven't found a way to repair
> this.
> debugfs cannot open the filesystem (wrong magic number in superblock) and
> fsck.reiserfs doesn't do anything.
> 
> If anyone has got a solution for this, please mail me.
> I'll appreciate you help very much.
> 


1) Aren't there more copies of the superblock?
2) What about bad blocks?
3) I believe that /var/run does not hold useful info after the system is 
shutdown. Therefore, perhaps making again this dir will help?


>  Michael Vinokur
> 
> ASIC Design Engineer
> Texas Instruments Israel - SDW BU
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