yeah, I figured that much out,, it seems that reiserfsck found problems with /var and I had to rebuild the tree... I have checked fstab and all is as it should be.... so now I am trying to look at the logs and see if they have anything to say with what is going on.. when it stops at login, the computer doesn't appear to be crashed, I can use ALT-F2-F6 but it has the same effect, (no login) also, the caps and numberlock keys still work, which is unusual when a system is crashed... so its something else.. got no ideas what though... I have looked in the logs, messages and syslog and can find no unusual messages,, this is nuts.. rgds Frank -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 26 September 2001 5:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] damn reiser problems... Hi Frank, There is a fsck for reiserfs, and I think that its called fsck_reiserfs or something like that. BUT I don't belive that this will help you at all, if you say that you can boot up, and login that means that the kernel have found at least your /boot volume, and your / root volume, and mounted them with no problems, if the filesystems was broken they would not have been mounted. What I think went wrong here is that the kernel is booting from another partition than the one you want it to. Check /etc/lilo.conf and look for root= Check /etc/fstab and see from where the / root is mounted Ofcause you can always mount other volumes with "mount -treiserfs /dev/sd?? /myvol" and get to your data. Maybe check your disk partitions with fdisk /dev/sd? sd? = SCSI Disks replace ? with whatever number you have... hd? = IDE Disks - ||- Reiser is for your information a very stable filesystem, and I am sure it have nothing to do with your problem here... Please try some of the suggestions above, and resort to the fsck as an last option. Kind regards, Heino Walther > > Hi ,, > > I mentioned this last night, but noone really knew so I am asking again in > the hope that someone can give me a tip here... > > > I have a mandrake 7.2 system, and when I rebooted it last night, all sorts > of things went wrong... > > First, GDM stopped workin, and I had to use failsafe to kill that at boot > (along with all the other non essential servers...) > > > Now, if I boot to any kernel, I either get blank screen, or i get the > default linux console screen, with the penguin, and it asks for my login, > which if I type it just goes to the next line and doesn't prompt for a > password... > > > I have alot of html and perl work on this machine that I hadn't yet backed > up, so its imperrative that I get this distro, functional,,, > > I am of the feelin that its been some sort of File system corruption (all > partitions are reiser except /boot) > > but from looking at the failsafe logs, there isn't much wrong with > anything.. > > how I go about using the rescue disk to mount the hard drive and/or possibly > to fsck it??? > > > what is the command for fsck for reiserfs?? > > does anyone have any ideas?? also, why do I get the blank screen at > login... (or a prompt that doesnt' ask for you passwd???) > > > rgds > > Frank > > > > ------------=_1001481061-779-1770 > Content-Type: text/plain; name="message.footer" > Content-Disposition: inline; filename="message.footer" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > ------------=_1001481061-779-1770-- > ------------------------------------- Heino Walther [EMAIL PROTECTED], aka. [EMAIL PROTECTED], aka. [EMAIL PROTECTED], aka. [EMAIL PROTECTED], aka. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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