Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem corruption - reiserfs? - won't boot, filesystem couldn't be fixed :(

2010-03-09 Thread Stroller
On 4 Mar 2010, at 10:23, Willie Wong wrote: ... Okay, something is screwed up with udev. Is udev started? Ah! Ok... this is shown as an error when before the failed to open the device message. http://linux.stroller.uk.eu.org/fs-corruption.png Startin udevd... error getting signalfd What

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem corruption - reiserfs? - won't boot, filesystem couldn't be fixed :(

2010-03-04 Thread Stroller
On 3 Mar 2010, at 17:14, Willie Wong wrote: On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 04:16:50PM +, Stroller wrote: Many thanks for your help, Willie! About 13 items. Is this unlucky? http://linux.stroller.uk.eu.org/fs-corruption-dev.png Okay, something is screwed up with udev. Is udev started? Ah!

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem corruption - reiserfs? - won't boot, filesystem couldn't be fixed :(

2010-03-04 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 09:55:44AM +, Stroller wrote: On 3 Mar 2010, at 17:14, Willie Wong wrote: On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 04:16:50PM +, Stroller wrote: Many thanks for your help, Willie! About 13 items. Is this unlucky? http://linux.stroller.uk.eu.org/fs-corruption-dev.png

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem corruption - reiserfs? - won't boot, filesystem couldn't be fixed :(

2010-03-04 Thread Stroller
On 4 Mar 2010, at 10:23, Willie Wong wrote: On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 09:55:44AM +, Stroller wrote: On 3 Mar 2010, at 17:14, Willie Wong wrote: On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 04:16:50PM +, Stroller wrote: Many thanks for your help, Willie! About 13 items. Is this unlucky?

[gentoo-user] Filesystem corruption - reiserfs? - won't boot, filesystem couldn't be fixed :(

2010-03-03 Thread Stroller
There seem to have been a few people posting with filesystem corruption in the last week or two. It seems to be my turn, so I hope it isn't contagious. The cause here is quite clear - whilst rummaging in the server cupboard yesterday, power to the machine was accidentally disconnected. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem corruption - reiserfs? - won't boot, filesystem couldn't be fixed :(

2010-03-03 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 12:24:42PM +, Stroller wrote: There seem to have been a few people posting with filesystem corruption in the last week or two. It seems to be my turn, so I hope it isn't contagious. The cause here is quite clear - whilst rummaging in the server cupboard

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem corruption - reiserfs? - won't boot, filesystem couldn't be fixed :(

2010-03-03 Thread Stroller
On 3 Mar 2010, at 12:42, Willie Wong wrote: On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 12:24:42PM +, Stroller wrote: There seem to have been a few people posting with filesystem corruption in the last week or two. It seems to be my turn, so I hope it isn't contagious. The cause here is quite clear - whilst

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem corruption - reiserfs? - won't boot, filesystem couldn't be fixed :(

2010-03-03 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 4:24 AM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: There seem to have been a few people posting with filesystem corruption in the last week or two. It seems to be my turn, so I hope it isn't contagious. The cause here is quite clear - whilst rummaging in the server

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem corruption - reiserfs? - won't boot, filesystem couldn't be fixed :(

2010-03-03 Thread Mick
On 3 March 2010 13:28, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 3 Mar 2010, at 12:42, Willie Wong wrote: On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 12:24:42PM +, Stroller wrote: There seem to have been a few people posting with filesystem corruption in the last week or two. It seems to be my

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem corruption - reiserfs? - won't boot, filesystem couldn't be fixed :(

2010-03-03 Thread Stroller
On 3 Mar 2010, at 14:00, Mark Knecht wrote: On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 4:24 AM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: There seem to have been a few people posting with filesystem corruption in the last week or two. It seems to be my turn, so I hope it isn't contagious. The cause here

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem corruption - reiserfs? - won't boot, filesystem couldn't be fixed :(

2010-03-03 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 01:28:11PM +, Stroller wrote: from the output it looks like you are mounting by label? What if you edit fstab to point to the device name /dev/hd?? instead of LABEL=root? Check the filesystem label to make sure it is ok? Many thanks for this suggestion, however

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem corruption - reiserfs? - won't boot, filesystem couldn't be fixed :(

2010-03-03 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 6:26 AM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 3 Mar 2010, at 14:00, Mark Knecht wrote: On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 4:24 AM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: There seem to have been a few people posting with filesystem corruption in the last

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem corruption - reiserfs? - won't boot, filesystem couldn't be fixed :(

2010-03-03 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 02:26:46PM +, Stroller wrote: I don't think this is a problem. I would love to know what others think of the `smartctl` output: r...@sysresccd /root % smartctl -H /dev/sda smartctl version 5.38 [i486-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen Home page

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem corruption - reiserfs? - won't boot, filesystem couldn't be fixed :(

2010-03-03 Thread Stroller
Many thanks for your help, Willie! On 3 Mar 2010, at 15:18, Willie Wong wrote: On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 01:28:11PM +, Stroller wrote: from the output it looks like you are mounting by label? What if you edit fstab to point to the device name /dev/hd?? instead of LABEL=root? Check the

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem corruption - reiserfs? - won't boot, filesystem couldn't be fixed :(

2010-03-03 Thread Stroller
On 3 Mar 2010, at 14:01, Mick wrote: ... Once or twice things went hairy and I would get a message similar to yours. On these rare occasions I booted with a LiveCD and with the partitions unmounted I ran --check, then --fix-fixable and finally --rebuild-tree. You may want to use an external

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem corruption - reiserfs? - won't boot, filesystem couldn't be fixed :(

2010-03-03 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 04:16:50PM +, Stroller wrote: Many thanks for your help, Willie! About 13 items. Is this unlucky? http://linux.stroller.uk.eu.org/fs-corruption-dev.png Okay, something is screwed up with udev. Is udev started? Is it upgraded recently? Any config files in

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem corruption - reiserfs? - won't boot, filesystem couldn't be fixed :(

2010-03-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 3 Mar 2010 16:16:50 +, Stroller wrote: If you try to boot, after the failure to check rootfs, it should dump you to a recovery console, what happens if you issue ls /dev ? About 13 items. Is this unlucky? http://linux.stroller.uk.eu.org/fs-corruption-dev.png Is that the