Hi all, We have a machine on Oracle Linux running for around 2 years. It only hosts test apps but it has a public IP because people are testing from multiple places. A few days ago we started encountering problems. Some symptoms:
1. Frequently becomes inaccessible. We end up doing hard reboot 2. Slow boot-up and response time 3. When you log on to the graphical console, instead of the expected gnome, it suddenly gives only the very basic X windows - xterm, etc 4. No account can log on to shell (whether switching from X to shell or when I modified to inittab to boot only to shell). This is using the same usernames and passwords that were able to log using GUI. 5. I moved the hard-disk to another machine, boot up was a lot better 3 and 4 makes me think security was compromised. 2 and 5 tells me hardware has problems too. But right now fixing and investigating that is secondary vs extracting certain data from the drive. Once I changed inittab and rebooted, I could no longer log on. So my next option is to mount the drive on another machine or via a live cd. This is where I got reminded that the main partition on the drive is formatted for LVM. How do you manually mount such a drive? Getting confused with the stuff I found while googling. Thanks Johann -- Web application and database consulting: www.sagadasolutions.com
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