On Tue, 2009-09-01 at 19:37 +0200, Igor Brkic wrote: > Hello to everyone! > > Yesterday, after system update I couldn't boot my system anymore. I > got the following kernel message: > > ... > Waiting 0 s before mounting root device... > JFS: nTxBlock = 8192, nTxLock = 65536 > kinit: Mounted root (jfs filesystem) readonly. > kinit: /sbin/init: Too many symbolic links encountered > Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempting to kill init! > Pid: 1, comm: kinit Not tainted 2.6.30-ARCH #1 > Call Trace > ... (here go some hex numbers - i will type them if needed) > > (BTW it is 64bit system) > > Till now, I'm almost completely assured that problem is not in kernel > because others who had similar problems solved it by booting live cd > and using chrooted environment which I can't do (description follows). > > I tried to boot live cd and try chrooted environment, but after > mounting needed partitions and other, when i try "chroot arch_dir" i > get: > chroot: cannot run command '/bin/bash': Too many levels of symbolic > links > > I managed to get into chrooted environment by replacing bash with dash > which is statically linked so it doesn't require any other libs. But > if I try to run any other dinamically linked app, I get the same > error. > > I've checked all libraries that ldd reports for bash and there is only > one level of symbolic linking for each (for > example /lib/libreadline.so.6 links to /lib/libreadline.so.6.0 which > is needed library) which is the same like on other systems that work. > > Also to mention, when I first tried to mount jfs volumes jfs_fsck > reported that they are corrupted but marked as clean and to run it > again with -f option. I did that and after that everything was ok and > I was able to mount them to save some critical data I need for work. > > Do you have any suggestions?
I'm no expert on dynamic loading, but you may want to check /lib/ld-linux.so.2. If that looks okay, maybe running "/lib/ld-linux.so.2 --list /bin/bash" might shed some light on the problem. (I ran "man ld.so" for this info. I don't really know too much here.) > > Cheers, > Igor Brkic -- David Kleikamp IBM Linux Technology Center ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Jfs-discussion mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jfs-discussion
