On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 5:43 PM, Gora Mohanty <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:06:56 +0530 > "stranger in black....." <[email protected]> wrote: > > > There is a strange error in my friend's pc...... He was up with > > jaunty.... But due to a sudden power failure, the system got > > crashed........ After that the system is not booting and an error > > message is showing * Kernel panic - not syncing: Attemptrd to > > kill init! Dumping ftrace buffer: (ftrace buffer empty)*......... > > > > He used a live cd to check the filesystem using fsck > > command....... But after that many folders and files like /etc/ > > got missed.......... > > > > how to solve this?. > [...] > > Sorry, but you probably can't solve this. A power failure while > filesystem writes are going on can corrupt it, though machines > should be less prone to this with a journalling filesystem. What > filesystem was being used? Is he using ext4 by any chance? Ext4 does not behave well at all with power failure issues and this is a known bug if you google Ext4 Power Failure. One link explains it a bit: http://www.h-online.com/open/Ext4-data-loss-explanations-and-workarounds--/news/112892 You can hunt around, but as Gora says, probably not much that can be done now :( Best of luck, Sanjay > > It is also in general a bad idea to run fsck, and blindly answer > 'y' to all prompts. At this point, I think that you will need to > reinstall the system. If /home was on a different partition, it > might still be recoverable. > > Regards, > Gora > > -- > ubuntu-in mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in >
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