xaqster
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Joined: 15 Mar 2005
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 Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 9:20 am Post subject: E3500 unabel to access disks after initial boot process |
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Help please!
I have just installed on a E3500 with a D1000 hanging off the back. All was working fine, until I did a emerge --update world on Tuesday. The system started to act a little unstable, so I rebooted to try to clear. On boot, I get the following:
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kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly.
Mounted devfs on /dev
INIT: version 2.84 booting
Gentoo Linux; http://www.gentoo.org/
Copyright 2001-2004 Gentoo Technologies, Inc.; Distributed under the GPL
* Mounting proc at /proc... [ ok ]
* Starting devfsd...Started device management daemon v1.3.25 for /dev
Error opening directory "/lib/dev-state/tts" Too many open files
unknown group: "tty", defaulting to GID=0
unknown group: "tty", defaulting to GID=0
Error opening directory "/lib/dev-state" Too many open files
unknown user: "root", defaulting to UID=0
unknown group: "audio", defaulting to GID=0
unknown user: "root", defaulting to UID=0
unknown group: "audio", defaulting to GID=0
unknown user: "root", defaulting to UID=0
unknown group: "cdrom", defaulting to GID=0
unknown user: "root", defaulting to UID=0
unknown group: "cdrom", defaulting to GID=0
unknown user: "root", defaulting to UID=0
unknown group: "cdrom", defaulting to GID=0
unknown user: "root", defaulting to UID=0
unknown group: "floppy", defaulting to GID=0
unknown user: "root", defaulting to UID=0
unknown group: "usb", defaulting to GID=0
unknown user: "root", defaulting to UID=0
unknown group: "usb", defaulting to GID=0
unknown user: "root", defaulting to UID=0
unknown group: "video", defaulting to GID=0
unknown user: "root", defaulting to UID=0
unknown group: "video", defaulting to GID=0
unknown user: "root", defaulting to UID=0
unknown group: "video", defaulting to GID=0
error opening file: "/etc/devfs.d" Too many open files
[ !! ]
* Activating (possible) swap... [ ok ]
* Remounting root filesystem read-only (if necessary)... [ ok ]
* Checking root filesystem...fsck.ext3: No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/sda1
/dev/sda1:
The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2
filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2
filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock
is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock:
e2fsck -b 8193 <device>
* Filesystem couldn't be fixed :(
[ !! ]
Give root password for maintenance
(or type Control-D for normal startup):
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Now, the problem I have with this is that I do not have a seperate /boot partition, it is on the / partition. So to get as far as loading the kernel, the root partition must be mountable! My silo.conf is this:
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livecd etc # more silo.conf
partition = 1
root = /dev/sda1
timeout = 10
image = /boot/kernel-2.4.24
label = linux
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This has been working fine for about 3 days, until I did the emerge --update world. The packages I have installed are as follows:
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livecd ssh # qpkg --installed
app-admin/syslog-ng *
app-arch/bzip2 *
app-arch/cpio *
app-arch/gzip *
app-arch/ncompress *
app-arch/rpm2targz *
app-arch/tar *
app-arch/unzip *
app-crypt/hashalot *
app-doc/doxygen *
app-doc/edox-data *
app-editors/nano *
app-editors/vim *
app-editors/vim-core *
app-portage/gentoolkit *
app-shells/bash *
app-shells/sash *
app-text/build-docbook-catalog *
app-text/docbook-dsssl-stylesheets *
app-text/docbook-sgml-dtd *
app-text/docbook-sgml-utils *
app-text/docbook-xml-dtd *
app-text/docbook-xml-simple-dtd *
app-text/docbook-xsl-stylesheets *
app-text/ghostscript *
app-text/openjade *
app-text/opensp *
app-text/sgml-common *
app-vim/gentoo-syntax *
dev-lang/perl *
dev-lang/python *
dev-libs/atk *
dev-libs/expat *
dev-libs/glib *
dev-libs/libgcrypt *
dev-libs/libgpg-error *
dev-libs/libol *
dev-libs/libxml2 *
dev-libs/libxslt *
dev-libs/openssl *
dev-libs/popt *
dev-perl/Locale-gettext *
dev-perl/SGMLSpm *
dev-perl/XML-Parser *
dev-python/python-docs *
dev-python/python-fchksum *
dev-util/ctags *
dev-util/gtk-doc *
dev-util/intltool *
dev-util/pkgconfig *
dev-util/yacc *
mail-mta/ssmtp *
media-fonts/gnu-gs-fonts-std *
media-gfx/graphviz *
media-libs/audiofile *
media-libs/fontconfig *
media-libs/freetype *
media-libs/giflib *
media-libs/imlib2 *
media-libs/jpeg *
media-libs/lcms *
media-libs/libmng *
media-libs/libpng *
media-libs/libungif *
media-libs/tiff *
media-sound/esound *
net-ftp/proftpd *
net-mail/mailbase *
net-misc/iputils *
net-misc/openssh *
net-misc/rsync *
net-misc/tightvnc *
net-misc/wget *
net-print/cups *
net-www/apache *
sys-apps/baselayout *
sys-apps/coreutils *
sys-apps/debianutils *
sys-apps/diffutils *
sys-apps/ed *
sys-apps/file *
sys-apps/findutils *
sys-apps/gawk *
sys-apps/grep *
sys-apps/groff *
sys-apps/hdparm *
sys-apps/help2man *
sys-apps/kbd *
sys-apps/less *
sys-apps/man *
sys-apps/man-pages *
sys-apps/miscfiles *
sys-apps/module-init-tools *
sys-apps/net-tools *
sys-apps/pam-login *
sys-apps/portage *
sys-apps/sed *
sys-apps/shadow *
sys-apps/slocate *
sys-apps/sparc-utils *
sys-apps/tcp-wrappers *
sys-apps/texinfo *
sys-apps/utempter *
sys-apps/util-linux *
sys-apps/which *
sys-boot/silo *
sys-devel/autoconf *
sys-devel/autoconf-wrapper *
sys-devel/automake *
sys-devel/automake-wrapper *
sys-devel/bc *
sys-devel/binutils *
sys-devel/bison *
sys-devel/flex *
sys-devel/gcc *
sys-devel/gcc-config *
sys-devel/gcc-sparc64 *
sys-devel/gettext *
sys-devel/gnuconfig *
sys-devel/libperl *
sys-devel/libtool *
sys-devel/m4 *
sys-devel/make *
sys-devel/patch *
sys-devel/sparc32 *
sys-fs/devfsd *
sys-fs/e2fsprogs *
sys-kernel/linux-headers *
sys-kernel/sparc-sources *
sys-libs/cracklib *
sys-libs/db *
sys-libs/gdbm *
sys-libs/glibc *
sys-libs/ncurses *
sys-libs/pam *
sys-libs/pwdb *
sys-libs/readline *
sys-libs/zlib *
sys-process/cronbase *
sys-process/procps *
sys-process/psmisc *
sys-process/vixie-cron *
www-client/lynx *
x11-base/opengl-update *
x11-base/xorg-x11 *
x11-libs/gtk+ *
x11-libs/pango *
x11-libs/qt *
x11-misc/shared-mime-info *
x11-misc/ttmkfdir *
x11-terms/xterm *
x11-themes/etheme-BlueSteel *
x11-themes/etheme-BrushedMetal-Tigert *
x11-themes/etheme-Ganymede *
x11-themes/etheme-ShinyMetal *
x11-themes/ethemes *
x11-wm/enlightenment *
livecd ssh #
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Everything has been installed via emerge. This was a stage1 install.
Also, just to make it more strange, I can mount the partitions and use them fine from the live CD. I can even chroot onto the partitions and run that way, with no problems.
Has anyone seen this sort of thing before? I have tried the forum search ( dosn't seem to be working for me at the moment! I do a search for Gentoo and get no results!) and on google.
Can someone pleae point me in the right direction? This is really buging me, as this is my first Gentoo install I am a unix sys admin by trade ( mainly Solaris) and run RedHat and Mandrake at work and home. I am determined to get this working right, then migrate my home laptop to gentoo!
If more information is needed, please just let me know.
Thanks in advance
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