On Sun, 19 Dec 1999, Richard Salts wrote about, Re: Electrical failure:
> Richard,
>
> Thanks very much for your tip. I have my Linux up and running again.
>
> After the machine had gone through its corrections, I tried the command
> 'startx' but that didn't work. Then I had the thought, like I do Windows,
> reboot the machine and see then what happens. This was done and Linux is
> back up and running again.
startx couuld not work as you were at that minute in "admistration mode",
or as we say init 1.
init 3 or runlevel 3 is the normal console runlevel, init 1 is for doing
maintainance, no daemons are running no programs get started, its just
plain command mode to allow you the operator to do maintainance.
If you had typed ;
init 3
the system should have then started without the need of a reboot.
Like i have said many times, the need to reboot a linux machine is 100/1
The need to reinstall linux is 1000/1
The need to pray is 1/1
> Thanks
My pleasure.
>
> Richard
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Richard Salts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Sunday, December 19, 1999 3:43 AM
> Subject: Re: Electrical failure
>
>
> >On Sat, 18 Dec 1999, Richard Salts wrote about, Electrical failure:
> >> After the lights went out and, after a short time, came back on, here is
> >> what my Linux computer came up with after file check failures and so on.
> >>
> >> '**An error occurred during the file system check.
> >>
> >> ** Dropping you to a shell; the system will reboot when you leave the
> shell.
> >>
> >> ** Give root password for maintenance (or type Control-D for normal
> startup):
> >>
> >> I give the root pwd and then the root prompt:
> >>
> >> root@localhost /root]#
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> What do I do now to get the system up and working again?
> >
> >You should have seen a message saying "Use fsck without any options" before
> >the prompt, anyway simply type fsck /dev/hdax where x is the partition with
> >the problem. Answer any questions with "y" or "n" you will be told whats
> >wrong.
> >
> >When a system is shutdown without closing files properly inodes on the disk
> >do not get updated, fsck should "fix" that for you.
> >
> >
> >
> >>
> >> Thanks for any pointers
> >>
> >>
> >> Richard
> >--
> >Regards Richard
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/
> >Merry Xmas.
> >
> >
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Regards Richard
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http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/
Merry Xmas.
