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PostPosted: Wed Jan 16, 2013 3:34 pm    Post subject: can't boot , read only root filesystem Reply with quote

Hi all,

I'm afraid the last update on a server I run has made it not able to run init scripts after
Code:
Booting (initramfs)
The kernel was upgraded to 3.5.0 at the time the damage was done, I've since upgraded to 3.6.0 from a livecd but it wasn't repaired by that.

It's an LVM JBOD setup with a non lvm boot partition. I pursued grub issues for a while and managed to remove some file not found errors. I get an mdadm error saying missing arrays but I never set up anyway.

In rescue mode the system gets as far as starting init scripts and then returns the error cannot execute /etc/init.d/rcS
enter root password for maintenance. None of the init sripts have run, no network or anything. when I try and run any init scripts after that then for any of them it says
Code:
warning [service] is already starting


From a live Cd I've removed some old kernels and reinstalled openrc and udev for the hell of it to no avail.

From the live cd I chrooted with the boot partition mounted in the right place before any kernel or grub changes.

fsck was clean on the volumes

Root filesystem is being mounted readonly, I don't know why this is, any ideas?
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 16, 2013 7:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

boot cd run fsck on all partitions, especially / ,then boot system
Code:
mount -o remount,rw /
rc
should give you access Kernel may need one or more of following in menuconfig and a recompile:
Quote:
General Setup --->
(Make sure the following item is *not* enabled)
[ ] enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools

Device Drivers │
Generic Driver Options
[*] Maintain a devtmpfs filesystem to mount at /dev
[*] Automount devtmpfs at /dev, after the kernel mounted the rootfs

File Systems --->
[*] Dnotify support
[*] Inotify support for userspace

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PostPosted: Thu Jan 17, 2013 8:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks for the reply Donahue.

I've already tried fscking and all volumes returned clean. I've remounted the root partition rw and it just returns to ro next reboot.

I didn't know about running rc just like that though, it runs but as the system is at either level 2 or 6 depending on whether I use failsafe boot option or not it doesn't get very far.

When I try switching runlevels using init 3 for example then it always returns
Code:
INIT: cannot execute "/etc/init.d/rc"
which doesn't exist. I'm using openrc
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 17, 2013 8:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Another very strange thing when I run df -h I get

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/dev/mapper/vg_lv_root   50G   39G  8.6G  82% /
/dev/mapper/vg_lv_home   50G   39G  8.6G  82% /home


although the home partition should be a much bigger one , it's clearly pointing to the root volume here. What's more when I try to unmount home then it tells me it's not mounted!
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 17, 2013 10:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Looking at these items tells you?
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General Setup --->
(Make sure the following item is *not* enabled)
[ ] enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools

Device Drivers │
Generic Driver Options
[*] Maintain a devtmpfs filesystem to mount at /dev
[*] Automount devtmpfs at /dev, after the kernel mounted the rootfs

File Systems --->
[*] Dnotify support
[*] Inotify support for userspace


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emerge -s openrc udev
shows which versions?
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 18, 2013 12:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Is /etc/fstab still as you want it to be?
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 18, 2013 10:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yes my fstab seems fine. I can mount things manually later, and once I remount the root partition rw then I can start the services manually, including udev.

All those kernel options are correct apart from the Automount devtmpfs , so I might try that option out.

My openrc version is 0.10.5 and udev is 189

Thanks again!
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 19, 2013 12:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

complete? list for prefork udev:
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CONFIG_DEVTMPFS=y
CONFIG_DEVTMPFS_MOUNT=y
CONFIG_HOTPLUG=y
CONFIG_FSNOTIFY=y
CONFIG_DNOTIFY=y
CONFIG_INOTIFY_USER=y
CONFIG_NET=y
CONFIG_PROC_FS=y
CONFIG_SIGNALFD=y
CONFIG_SYSFS=y
CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED is not set
CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER_PATH=""
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_BSG=y
CONFIG_TMPFS=y
CONFIG_TMPFS_POSIX_ACL=y
CONFIG_TMPFS_XATTR=y
some may not be needed but I think none are harmful. My udev is prefork with udev-171-r9 openrc-0.11.8 here.
uncommenting
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rc_logger="YES"
in /etc/rc.conf might provide some information at /var/log/rc.log
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 19, 2013 3:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

once I've booted into maintenance mode I get the following output from rc-status

udev does appear to have not started. I can start all these services manually though and gradually bring the system up.

Code:
Runlevel: sysinit
 udev-mount                                                                                                   [  started  ]
 dmesg                                                                                                        [  started  ]
 udev                                                                                                         [  crashed  ]
 devfs                                                                                                        [  started  ]
Dynamic Runlevel: hotplugged
Dynamic Runlevel: needed
 rpcbind                                                                                                      [  crashed  ]
 rpc.statd                                                                                                    [  crashed  ]
 sysfs                                                                                                        [  started  ]
 syslog-ng                                                                                                    [  crashed  ]
 rpc.idmapd                                                                                                   [  started  ]
Dynamic Runlevel: manual
 local                                                                                                        [  started  ]
 network                                                                                                      [  started  ]
 net.eth0                                                                                                     [  started  ]
 samba                                                                                                        [  crashed  ]
 sshd                                                                                                         [  crashed  ]
 nfs                                                                                                          [  started  ]
 gkrellmd                                                                                                     [  crashed  ]


I'll try checking those further kernel options and see. Much appreciated!
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