On Monday 18 Jun 2007 11:58:52 Nadeem M. Khan wrote: > On 6/18/07, jtd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I woul suspect that /lib is corrupt. > > I had a similiar problem on a debian install with reiserfs while > > testing for power outages. > > Also afaik ext3 is less resilient than jfs. > > In rescue mode, running grep gives a segfault. Lately, even running > mount gives a segfault. Mount was ok till yesterday. > > >From what I know, proc is mounted by the kernel on /proc. All that is > > required is the existence of a proc directory in /. I suspect > something wrong with the kernel mechanism that mounts proc. I wanted > to build a new kernel, but I don't see how that can be done from the > rescue mode. The rpm command would complain of missing modules and > compiling a tarball would be even more difficult.
Your userspace seems broken to me. I doubt it has anything to do with the kernel. If you notice, the reason /proc isn't being mounted by the init script is because grep segfaults. I wonder if there is something like Gentoo's revdep-rebuild for Red Hat. I'd run an fsck to start with. If necessary, restore from the superblock backup. Then I'd reinstall glibc and the lib packages. -- ---------------------------------------- Mrugesh Karnik GPG Key 0xBA6F1DA8 Public key on http://wwwkeys.pgp.net ----------------------------------------
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