Re: Boot fails during fschk of /dev/vg1/var
On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 6:01 PM, William Hopkins <we.hopkins@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 06/04/11 at 05:44pm, Marc Shapiro wrote:
>> I am running Lenny with LVM. Last night the system locked completely.
>> No mouse movement. No keystroke entry. Nothing. I don't like to
>> power down without a proper shutdown, but I did not seem to have a lot
>> of choice. This morning, when I tried to boot up I got an fschk on
>> several partitions. The first few were fine, until I got to
>> /dev/vg1/var. I got a dma expiry error. I tried several times to
>> power down and reboot, with the same result.
>>
>> Next, I booted into single user and tried to fsck /dev/vg1/var. When
>> I do that, I get the following messages:
>>
>> /dev/vg1/var has gone 186 days without being checked, check forced.
>> Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
>> [ 191.648009] hda: ide_dma_sff_timer_expiry: DMA status (0x61)
>> [ 201.648005] hda DMA timeout error
>> [ 201.648057] hda: dma ti9meout error: status=0xd0 { Busy }
>> [ 201,648173] hda: possibly failed opcode: 0xc8
>> [ 201.648224] hda: DMA disabled
>> [ 201.512005] ide0: reset: success
>>
>> Then it just sits there indefinitely. Total lock up.
>
> Try booting with ide=nodma, see how far you get.
Same error. Same lockup.
Marc Shapiro
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