hi all, I have just upgraded my sarge system to etch, following exactly the upgrade instructions at http://www.us.debian.org/releases/etch/i386/release-notes/.
now my system does not boot correctly anymore... I'm using RAID1 with two disks, / is on md0 and all other mounts (/home/, /var, /usr etc) are on md1 using LVM. the first problem is that during boot, only md0 gets started. I can get around this by specifying break=mount on the kernel boot line and manually starting md1, but where need I change what so that md1 gets started at this point as well? after manually starting md1 and continuing to boot, I get errors like [/sbin/fsck.ext3 (1) -- /var] fsck.ext3 -a -C0 /dev/mapper/volg1-b /var: recovering journal /var contains a file system with errors, check forced. /var: Inode 184326 has illegal block(s) /var: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY (i.e. without the -a or -o options) ... same for all other partitions on that volume group fsck died with exit status 4 A log is being saved in /var/log/fsck/checkfs if that location is writable.(it is not) at this point I get dropped to a maintenance shell. when I select to continue the boot process: EXT3-fs warning: mounting fs with errors. running e2fsck is recommended EXT3 FS on dm-4, internal journal EXT3-FS: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. ... same for all mounts (same for dm-3, dm-2, dm-1, dm-0) EXT3-fs error (device dm-1) in ext3_reserve_inode_write: Journal has aborted EXT3-fs error (device dm-1) in ext3_orphan)write: Journal has aborted EXT3-fs error (device dm-1) in ext3_orphan_del: Journal has aborted EXT3-fs error (device dm-1) in ext3_truncate_write: Journal has aborted ext3_abort called. EXT3-fs error (device dm-1): ext3_journal)_start_sb: Detected aborte djournal Remounting filesystem read-only and finally I get tons of these: dm-0: rw-9, want=6447188432, limit=10485760 attempt to access beyond end of device the system then stops for a long time (~5 minutes) at "starting systlog service" but eventually the login prompt comes up, and I can log in, see all my data, and even (to my surprise) write to the partitions on md1... what the hell is going on here? thanks a lot in advance for any help! best, - Dave