[TriLUG] filesystem error on upgrade to RH 7.2

[Tanner Lovelace]

On Thu, 2002-03-21 at 13:58, Richard O. Hammer wrote:
>
> Thank you.  Unfortunately I do not see a message telling what
> device was being tested above that error message, although it
> might have scrolled by too fast.  From what remains on the
> screen before the error message I see:
> 
> 	Process fsck (pid: 165, stackpgae=c38eb000)
> 	Stack: [three lines of 8-digit hex numbers]
> 
> 	Call Trace: [more hex]
> 
> 	Code: [20 2-digit hex numbers]
> 		[FAILED]
>

Try typing Ctrl-Pgup and see if you can see the stuff that
scrolled off the screen.  Failing that, try to watch the
process intently and see if you can see where it was in
the boot process.

 
> When I type: fsck /dev/ [hda | hda1 | hda2 | hda3 | hda5 | hdb
> | hdb3]
> It gives me one line:
> 	Parallelizing fsck version 1.23 (15-Aug-2001)
> 

Before doing that, you might type mount to see what's mounted.
You should only run fsck on a drive that is either not mounted
or is mounted read-only (that's why it's mounted read only
to begin with).

> and then locks up.  It ignores Ctl-C and Ctl-Alt-Del; the only
> way I know to get it to talk to me again is with the power
> switch.
> 
You said you converted to ext3, right?  fsck tries to call
the command that corresponds to your drive.  You could try
calling the ext2 one directly and see if that works. (You'd
probably then need to reinitialize your ext3 partitions with
tunefs, oh and you'd probably need to change it in fstab
to show ext2 to get it to boot).  Or, you could try to run
the fsck.ext3 command directly instead...

> But when I type "fsck /dev/[hdb1 | hdb2]" it says something,
> which may be intelligible to someone, and returns control.
> 
> With hdb1 it says:
> 	Parallelizing fsck version 1.23 (15-Aug-2001)
> 	fsck: fsck.swap: not found
> 	fsck: Error 2 while executing fsck.swap for /dev/hdb1
> 

Swap partitions don't need fscking because they are
pretty much changed everytime you boot.  

> With hdb2 it gives three lines which seem to be a clean bill
> of health.
> 

Okay, so hdb2 is ok.  At least that's something good. :-)

[...]
> Yes.  My fstab shows two swap areas.  I've tried to change
> this, to see what would result, but I can't edit fstab because
> I can't write anything (the file system is mounted
> "read-only").
> 

You can remount the filesystem read-write by doing
mount -rw <filesystem> [mount location (not needed, maybe)]
but I wouldn't suggest it until you get fsck to work correctly.

[...long original question deleted...]
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