Yes I have run fsck, e2fsck, with every switch except the one -b which I
cant figure out the syntax to run it and it has never shown an error.I did
get that rc-2 error but I can't find the problem. Could there be some kind
of a lock file here which is making this boot into an unmounted file
system? If so where?
I have run this from a floppy I can run e2fsck from the console but if I run
fsck from the command line I get a segmentation fault, but if I run e2fsck
it runs but reports no problems.
Jeanette
----- Original Message -----
From: sw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, August 27, 1999 10:48 PM
Subject: RE: [newbie] Strange Problem Need help from Mandrake soft
>
> On 27-Aug-99 Jeanette Russo wrote:
> > I am still trying to repair my Mandrake 5.3 system. I still get the
> > message at boot up that
> > "an error occured during the file system check dropping you to shell
system
> > will reboot when you leave the shell, give root password for maint"
> > I have run e2fsck every which way and it shows no errors. I can mount
hda5
> > manually and startx and everything works normally but no sound, and why
I
> > try to use the modem it tells me I have no PPP support. Well it did
> > yesterday before the crash. And when I reboot I am right back where I
> > started. Dmesg | less shows no errors but why is the thing booting into
ro
> > mode. etc/fstab looks fine same as before. Can someone from Mandrake
soft
> > please help?
> > I am out of ideas.
> > On the other hand I have redhat 6 sitting here and I have been wanting
to
> > try gnome.
> > Jeanette
>
> I'm no expert but I did some snooping and the message you're getting is
> generated in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit.
>
> The script check for the existence of the files:
> /fsckoptions extra options to run fsck with
> /forcefsck appends the -f option to the above list
> /fastboot if this file does not exist then run fsck
>
> You're message is generated if fsck's return value is 2 or greater. The
fsck
> man page states rc=2 mean a reboot is necessary, higher values mean more
> serious problems.
>
> I think /fastboot might be created by the shutdown or halt binaries.
There's
> also a flag in the ext2 superblock which is used to test if a partition
has
> been unmounted properly.
>
> Are you running fsck from a floppy? fsck should only be run on unmounted
> filesystems.
>
> hope this helps
>
> scott
>
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