Re: RH Boot failior!!!

Re: RH Boot failior!!!

[Owen Patrick Smith]

It is probably asking if you want to correct the failure but that isn't
being read for some reason.  Try typing yes and hirtting enter.  you may
need to do this MANY times before it will finish booting.  Red Hat (and
most linuxes I think) will wait for user input if it finds an error while
rebooting instead of fixing the computer as best it can and finishing the
boot process.  Not the best way for an OS thats supposed to work well for
a server but you get what you pay for.

HtH,

Owen Smith
ender3rd@wpi.edu

On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Thomas Ward wrote:

> Hello, list. I am having a huge crisis, and I do not know how to fix it. Let
> me explain what I was doing, and what happened.
>
>  I had compiled and installed yasr, because it can use flite for software
> speech. However, when testing yasr my RH box locked up, I had no speech, and
> was unable to shut down. I pressed the three finger alt+control+delete.
>
> The RH box rebooted, and then it freezes at one spot. Here is a summary of
> the error message;
>
> "Ext3 fs error! Can not read inode (33218) block (bla bla bla)"
>
> Then, RH sits there like a knot on a log. It will not do anything else, but
> sit there with that error message on the screen. Please, tell me how to fix
> this problem.
> This box in particular has lots of code, personal settings, a newly compiled
> copy of Gnome 2.0.2, among other things and none of it is on backup media. I
> loose this system I am roilly down the drain, screwed, you name it.
> Does anyone know what is wrong, and how to correct the problem? Thanks.
>
>
>
>
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RH Boot failior!!!

[Thomas Ward]

Hello, list. I am having a huge crisis, and I do not know how to fix it. Let
me explain what I was doing, and what happened.

 I had compiled and installed yasr, because it can use flite for software
speech. However, when testing yasr my RH box locked up, I had no speech, and
was unable to shut down. I pressed the three finger alt+control+delete.

The RH box rebooted, and then it freezes at one spot. Here is a summary of
the error message;

"Ext3 fs error! Can not read inode (33218) block (bla bla bla)"

Then, RH sits there like a knot on a log. It will not do anything else, but
sit there with that error message on the screen. Please, tell me how to fix
this problem.
This box in particular has lots of code, personal settings, a newly compiled
copy of Gnome 2.0.2, among other things and none of it is on backup media. I
loose this system I am roilly down the drain, screwed, you name it.
Does anyone know what is wrong, and how to correct the problem? Thanks.

Re: RH Boot failior!!!

[Igor Gueths]

Hi. Is most of your stuff on /root or /usr? Bc what you could do is if you
have a rescue floppy, you can boot into that and then repair your
filesystems. If you don't have a rescue kernel, can you give me a
description of some of your hardware i.e., i686? Sound? Etc and I can send
you my rescue kernel. That won't really keep you up by any means but it
will let you get at the problem. Oh and what does rh have for fs checking
fsck? Have you tried running that? Or does rh run it automatically? I know
this is what Debian does.

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On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Thomas Ward wrote:

> Hello, list. I am having a huge crisis, and I do not know how to fix it. Let
> me explain what I was doing, and what happened.
>
>  I had compiled and installed yasr, because it can use flite for software
> speech. However, when testing yasr my RH box locked up, I had no speech, and
> was unable to shut down. I pressed the three finger alt+control+delete.
>
> The RH box rebooted, and then it freezes at one spot. Here is a summary of
> the error message;
>
> "Ext3 fs error! Can not read inode (33218) block (bla bla bla)"
>
> Then, RH sits there like a knot on a log. It will not do anything else, but
> sit there with that error message on the screen. Please, tell me how to fix
> this problem.
> This box in particular has lots of code, personal settings, a newly compiled
> copy of Gnome 2.0.2, among other things and none of it is on backup media. I
> loose this system I am roilly down the drain, screwed, you name it.
> Does anyone know what is wrong, and how to correct the problem? Thanks.
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>

Re: RH Boot failior!!!

[Igor Gueths]

Hi. In that case, have you opened the machine and checked the connections?
Also try to power up the system with the case off of it to ensure proper
disk functionality? Whatever you do don't touch it when the thing is on!

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On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Thomas Ward wrote:

> Hi, I am suspecting the app had nothing to do with it. It just happens I was
> testing when my drive decided to pull a fast one on me.
> In either case there are many errors on startup, and I largely suspect
> something hardware wize is amiss.
> Until Sunday my Red Hat computer use to operate fine, and now it won't get
> past square one.
>
>
>
>
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Re: RH Boot failior!!!

[Thomas Ward]

Hi, I am suspecting the app had nothing to do with it. It just happens I was
testing when my drive decided to pull a fast one on me.
In either case there are many errors on startup, and I largely suspect
something hardware wize is amiss.
Until Sunday my Red Hat computer use to operate fine, and now it won't get
past square one.

Re: RH Boot failior!!!

[Igor Gueths]

Did this happen just when you were testing the ap? I'm just curious as to
if this is purely coincidential or did it just occur with that particular
ap. It sounds like you had some bad sectors you didn't previously know
about, and they unfortunately were written to causing failure.

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On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Thomas Ward wrote:

> Hi. Well, at this point I managed to run fsck but I am continuing to recieve
> the problem. The only good news so far is that I managed to back up my
> system before the error returned.
> Fsck seams to be having problems which makes me believe either the fs is
> totally damaged, or my hard drive is damaged in some way.
> I guess my next step is probably to fdisk the drive, and try a reinstall.
> If that fails I'll have to probably send my drive in for repares.
>
>
>
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Re: RH Boot failior!!!

[Thomas Ward]

Hi. Well, at this point I managed to run fsck but I am continuing to recieve
the problem. The only good news so far is that I managed to back up my
system before the error returned.
Fsck seams to be having problems which makes me believe either the fs is
totally damaged, or my hard drive is damaged in some way.
I guess my next step is probably to fdisk the drive, and try a reinstall.
If that fails I'll have to probably send my drive in for repares.