Re: fsck'd - FIXED
On 3/7/08, Douglas A. Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 08:53:18PM -0500, John Fleming wrote:
>
> > Sorry to answer my own post, but it's FIXED! When it got to the
> > "enter root password to enter maintenance", I did that, and at the
> > prompt entered fsck. It warned me about running e2fsck on a mounted
> > filesystem, and I entered "n" and saw "no" echoed - However, then it
> > goes ahead and runs. Will someone please explain that? It seemed to
> > fix a million things (or at least a few hundred), but now it is
> > actually fixed! Why does this work like this, and why didn't it work
> > running fsck from a live CD? Thanks again! - John
>
> I don't understand either. Have you checked /var/log/syslog for drive
> errors and installed smartmontools and checked that too?
>
> Something caused all these errors.
>
> Do subsequent reboots work fine? What about a shutdown -rF when a fsck
> is forced, are there any errors?
>
> Doug.
It's really fixed now - Subsequent reboots are fine, including
shutdown -rF. Between the complexity of this and my relative
inexperience, I am not going to know exactly what caused the errors.
But I learned a lot about what to do if I ever see it again. That
dialog about control-D or entering maintenance mode doesn't make sense
to me - I hit "n", it echoes "no", but then proceeds to run and work!
Things are fine now, but I need to start a new thread about restoring
apache. Thanks again Doug.
-John
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