Thanks Ray. I ran esfsck and yes'd everything. It rebooted fine. And so
far there
are no respawn messages.
John
Ray Olszewski wrote:
> OK. Without going into all the details of your problem, it clearly does come
> from filesystem corruption. When you drop into maintenence mode, run e2fsck
> and let it fix things as it will (that is, say "yes" to everything it asks).
> See if that helps.
>
> If not ... well, I saw Lawson posting a response talking about problems with
> some IDE controllers. I've had IDE problems too -- but they were simply a
> bad board (a like-for-like swapout fixed the problem).
>
> As to respawning ... init respawns whater you tell it to in inittab.
> Typically, what respawns are processes that provide login opportunities --
> not just getty on the console, but lines that handle serial port & modem
> logins. inittab often includes examples of these processes, in the form of
> commented-out lines.
>
> In this instance, I'd guess that init is failing to run the mingetty
> processes dur to the filesystem corruption.
>
> At 12:47 PM 2/2/00 -0700, John Starkey wrote [in part]:
>
> >> "fdisk"? might it be "fsck"? This (maintenance mode) means the system finds
> >> some problem with your filesystem during the boot/init process. Without
> >> seeing the "something" it says, I can't be more specific. But init may be
> >> failing to find mingetty due to filesystem corruption. Try running "e2fsck
> >> /dev/hda1" (replace hda1 with the right designator for your root filesystem)
> >> and see if that helps. Or port again reporting the details of what happens
> >> during these unsuccessful boots.
> >
> >Yer right again. I even did an fdisk at this prompt. Maybe I need to try
> "hookt on
> >fonix".
> >
> >K..... it says:
> >
> >/dev/hda1 contains a file system with errors, check forced.
> >Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
> >Inode 64419 has illegal block(s). Clear<y>?
> >
> >An Inode is a 1k block of info on the drive right? How do I know whether I
> want to
> >clear it or not?? Or don't I have a choice.
> ------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"---
> Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo
> Palo Alto, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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