Cameron MacDonald wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 18:10 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>
>>Cameron MacDonald wrote:
>>
>>>I seem to have gotten myself into a pickle, and cannot troubleshoot my
>>>way out. It seems to have happened after I shutdown (properly) in order
>>>to clean up the rat's nest of wires and power cords behind my desk.
>>>After replugging everything in, and doublechecking that it is all
>>>plugged in correctly, my box booted up OK but KDE wouldn't start. Like a
>>>dipsh__ I didn't write all the errors down, but I remember one said that
>>>KDE couldn't start because /home/cam wasn't writable. The permissions
>>>for /home/cam are "drwxr-xr-x", the same as my laptop (on which I am
>>>typing now). So I rebooted just to see if it would fly right---same
>>>thing. Rebooted to see if I could start Gnome, and now it won't complete
>>>the boot process. This is what I get:
>>>
>>>"Checking root filesystem
>>> /dev/hdb7: clean, 159739/4676672 files, 1382957/9347814 blocks [OK]
>>> Remounting root filesystem in read-write mode: [OK]
>>> Activating swap partitions: [OK]
>>> Checking filesystems
>>> /dev/hdb1: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in
>>> short read while reading block 269
>>>
>>> /dev/hdb1: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in
>>> short read reading journal superblock
>>>
>>> fsck.ext3: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in
>>> short read while checking ext3 journal for /dev/hdb1
>>> /dev/hdb6: clean, 6787/5160960 files, 1723631/10319746 blocks
>>> Failed to check filesystem. Do you want to repair the errors? (Y/N)"
>>>
>>>I dual boot with WinXP on hda and Mandriva 10.2 on hdb.
>>>/dev/hdb1 is /boot
>>>/dev/hdb6 is /home
>>>/dev/hdb7 is /root
>>>
>>>
>>
>>The first thing I would do is open up the box, and double check the
>>cables. It is possible that in moving things around, the IDE cable is
>>not loger seated properly...
>>
>>You can also try booting with Knoppix, and then run:
>>e2fsck -fp /dev/hdb1
>>e2fsck -fp /dev/hdb6
>>e2fsck -fp /dev/hdb7
>>
>>Mikkel
>
>
> Thanks, Mikkel.
> The box itself never got moved around, only the wires down near the
> outlets; and XP boots up fine, so I don't believe that's a problem.
>
> I booted Knoppix and ran e2fsck on hdb1:
> hdb: task_in_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest
> Error }
> hdb: task_in_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=601,
> sector=599
> ide: failed opcode was: unknown
> end_request: I/O error, dev hdb, secotr 599
> printk: 2 messages suppressed.
> Buffer I/O error on device hdb1, logical block 536.
>
>
> This same error occurs for 4 different sectors and logical blocks.
>
> I ran e2fsck on hdb6 and hdb7:
> /dev/hdb6: 6787/5160960 files (4.1% non-contiguous),1723631/10319746
> blocks
> /dev/hdb7: pretty much the same.
>
> To my kindergarten-level linux-trained mind this doesn't look good for
> the /boot partition.
> Easy fix? Baby-with-the-bath-water? Chicken-sans-head-dance?
> I'd love to fix this rather than reinstall (been there, done that).
>
> Learnin' lots!!
>
> Cameron
>
>
That definitly doesn't sound good. At this point, I would download
http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ and run the test for your brand of drive.
If it is not an IDE cable problem, then it sounds like the drive is
dieing. The hard drive test will tell you for sure.
I would back up any important data now, while you still can. Use your
Knopix CD and mount the partition Read-only for the backup - less chance
of corrupting data... Then, depending on what the test says, you may get
away with doing a repair of the drive. I wouldn't trust a drive too far
after that, but it is up to you. The drive is susposed to remap bad
sectors by itself, but once in a while they need help.
Mikkel
--
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for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
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