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. I can reboot, go into single user mode, and mount the partition without any apparent errors. Only a warning that it has been too long since it was checked and I SHOULD run fsck. How do I fix this? Presumably, I could edit /etc/fstab to not mount /var automatically and mount it manually once the system has booted, but that does not correct the actual problem. Okay, that doesn't work. The root filesystem is read-only. Can I remount / as rw while the system is up? Do I need to get a rescue cd and make the changes that way? I think that I have enough unused space in my pv to create a new partition for /var and copy everything from the old partition. Would this be the best option, or is there something else to do? If this is my best option, then I guess I need a rescue CD that understands LVM to boot into and work from. Is this correct? All help appreciated. Marc Shapiro -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/banlktinmzrxbvsxorwpd1bdlhvkthq1...@mail.gmail.com