Filesystem fscked?

Trogdor · Post by **Trogdor** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 3:59 am

This is on a Pro installation, totally up-to-date in all software, applicable config files, and magic patches. Here's how it went: I started up Gentoox, and at one point during the bootup, it gives me this message:

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* Checking root filesystem...
Reiserfs super block in block 16 on 0x700 of format 3.6 with standard journal
Blocks (total/free): 760000/483749 by 4096 bytes
Filesystem is NOT cleanly unmounted
Partition /dev/loop/0 is mounted with write permissions, cannot check it
*Filesystem couldn't be fixed :( [ !! ]

Give root password for maintenance
(or type Control-D for normal startup):_

Now I knew that I didn't do a hard shutdown, and that ReiserFS is pretty solid, so I hit Control-D on my usb keyboard. No responce. I entered root password. No responce. I tap the numlock key. No light. I can't SSH in, because sshd hasn't been started yet! Am I going to have to reinstall?

Taily · Post by **Taily** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 10:03 am

Would it be possible for you to throw the drive into a computer and mount it from linux, or a live cd linux?

nobspangle · Post by **nobspangle** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 12:53 pm

can you fix it with sparkle?

Taily · Post by **Taily** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 6:06 pm

nobspangle wrote:can you fix it with sparkle?

I thougt you only used sparkle for rootfs?

Trogdor · Post by **Trogdor** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 7:36 pm

nobspangle wrote:can you fix it with sparkle?

Damn it! This is why I shouldn't be allowed intenet access. I've been busy in school, and have barely used gentoox since 2.0 home, before the days of sparkle. Thanks for reminding me.

Trogdor · Post by **Trogdor** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 7:37 pm

Taily wrote:
nobspangle wrote:can you fix it with sparkle?
I thougt you only used sparkle for rootfs?

I 'spect that it is rootfs that has gone bad. /me can't wait till reiser4.

Trogdor · Post by **Trogdor** » Thu Jun 24, 2004 8:11 pm

Reiserfsck returned no errors, but still, no change in problem.

winterborne · Post by **winterborne** » Thu Jun 24, 2004 11:38 pm

Similar thing happened to me a few months ago: I didn't have a working burner, or usb keyboard at the time so I FTP'd rootfs back to my main PC and fscked it... returned no errors. This probably isn't the sort of reply you're looking for but I wound up just reinstalling from scratch, then backing up rootfs onto my pc when I'd updated everything.

Taily · Post by **Taily** » Fri Jun 25, 2004 1:02 am

Perhaps something like your /etc/fstab file is wrong?
you could try mounting rootfs and editing it or something..

Post by **ShALLaX** » Fri Jun 25, 2004 1:16 pm

The problem is that you ran etc-update and replaced /etc/init.d/checkroot. http://gentoox.shallax.com/patch-files/uhoh.tbz2 << get that and somehow replace your checkroot with the one in there.

Trogdor · Post by **Trogdor** » Fri Jun 25, 2004 7:48 pm

ShALLaX wrote:The problem is that you ran etc-update and replaced /etc/init.d/checkroot. http://gentoox.shallax.com/patch-files/uhoh.tbz2 << get that and somehow replace your checkroot with the one in there.

I know! I'll make another install, for the sole purpose of mounting the rootfs and putting czechroot on it. But that sounds like work.

If only there was an xbox linux live-cd . . . made with xbox-catilyst . . .

well . . . if I put live compression on rootfs, and put on livecd-typish things . . . . . . . . . . . .

EDIT: ooh, /me just found dyne:bolic...
EDIT #2: damn, looks like dyne:bolic isn't an xbe...

Post by **ShALLaX** » Fri Jun 25, 2004 9:24 pm

Heres an idea... put stardust in.. ssh.. ctrl-c, mkdir /mnt/blah && mount -o loop /mnt/e/rootfs /mnt/blah && cd /mnt/blah/tmp && wget http://gentoox.shallax.com/patch-files/uhoh.tbz2 && tar -jxvf ./uhoh.tbz2 && cp ./checkroot /mnt/blah/etc/init.d/ && chmod 755 /mnt/blah/etc/init.d/checkroot && reboot

Or something like that...

Trogdor · Post by **Trogdor** » Fri Jun 25, 2004 9:51 pm

Too late . . . already d/led Pro 1.3, and am emerging mysql apache mod_php.