Re: fsck'd

["Douglas A. Tutty" <dtutty@porchlight.ca>]

On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 08:38:07PM -0500, John Fleming wrote:
> On 3/7/08, Douglas A. Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca> wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 08:29:08AM -0500, John Fleming wrote:
> > > Backgroud - I had a well-established LAMP server that was giving some
> > > filesystem errors on boot, with the "hit control-D to continue or give root
> > > password to fix manually" message. It would go ahead and work normally if I
> > > hit Control-D.
 
> Doug, thanks for the good ideas - I learned some things from your
> considered response.  I ended up finally reinstalling etch again.
> I've now captured the pertinent part of the boot messages and will
> copy below.  Why does the filesystem check clean once and then come up
> with errors the 2nd time?  You mentioned that I should fix it manually
> - Well, if I enter the root password at the prompt and try to run fsck
> manually, it warns me about the damage I might due to the MOUNTED
> filesystem.  I mentioned in my earlier post that if I boot into
> Knoppix and run fsck, it comes back CLEAN.  So I can't seem to repair
> it with Knoppix fsck, yet I get the error when I boot from my
> /dev/hda1 - the second time in the fsck sequence.  Can you shed any
> light on this?
> 
> Here is the pertinent boot sequence:
> 
> Checking root filesystem...fsck 1.40-WIP (14-Nov-2006)
> /dev/hda1: clean, 126072/19218432 files, 1420493/38409399 blocks
> done.
> 
> Setting up system clock..
> Cleaning up ifupdown....
> Loading kernel modules...loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
> done.
> 
> Loading device-mapper supportdevice-mapper: ioctl: 4.7.0-ioctl
> (2006-06-24) initialized: dm-devel@redhat.com
> 
> Checking file systems...fsck 1.40-WIP (14-Nov-2006)
> / contains a file system with errors, check forced.
> /:
> Inodes that were part of a corrupted orphan linked list found.
> /: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY.
> fsck died with exit status 4

What fsck command do you enter then in single-user?  The filesystem
should only be mounted ro.

Doug.