On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 18:10 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Cameron MacDonald wrote:
> > I seem to have gotten myself into a pickle, and cannot troubleshoot my
> > way out. It seems to have happened after I shutdown (properly) in order
> > to clean up the rat's nest of wires and power cords behind my desk.
> > After replugging everything in, and doublechecking that it is all
> > plugged in correctly, my box booted up OK but KDE wouldn't start. Like a
> > dipsh__ I didn't write all the errors down, but I remember one said that
> > KDE couldn't start because /home/cam wasn't writable. The permissions
> > for /home/cam are "drwxr-xr-x", the same as my laptop (on which I am
> > typing now). So I rebooted just to see if it would fly right---same
> > thing. Rebooted to see if I could start Gnome, and now it won't complete
> > the boot process. This is what I get:
> >
> > "Checking root filesystem
> > /dev/hdb7: clean, 159739/4676672 files, 1382957/9347814 blocks [OK]
> > Remounting root filesystem in read-write mode: [OK]
> > Activating swap partitions: [OK]
> > Checking filesystems
> > /dev/hdb1: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in
> > short read while reading block 269
> >
> > /dev/hdb1: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in
> > short read reading journal superblock
> >
> > fsck.ext3: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in
> > short read while checking ext3 journal for /dev/hdb1
> > /dev/hdb6: clean, 6787/5160960 files, 1723631/10319746 blocks
> > Failed to check filesystem. Do you want to repair the errors? (Y/N)"
> >
> > I dual boot with WinXP on hda and Mandriva 10.2 on hdb.
> > /dev/hdb1 is /boot
> > /dev/hdb6 is /home
> > /dev/hdb7 is /root
> >
> >
> The first thing I would do is open up the box, and double check the
> cables. It is possible that in moving things around, the IDE cable is
> not loger seated properly...
>
> You can also try booting with Knoppix, and then run:
> e2fsck -fp /dev/hdb1
> e2fsck -fp /dev/hdb6
> e2fsck -fp /dev/hdb7
>
> Mikkel
Thanks, Mikkel.
The box itself never got moved around, only the wires down near the
outlets; and XP boots up fine, so I don't believe that's a problem.
I booted Knoppix and ran e2fsck on hdb1:
hdb: task_in_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest
Error }
hdb: task_in_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=601,
sector=599
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
end_request: I/O error, dev hdb, secotr 599
printk: 2 messages suppressed.
Buffer I/O error on device hdb1, logical block 536.
This same error occurs for 4 different sectors and logical blocks.
I ran e2fsck on hdb6 and hdb7:
/dev/hdb6: 6787/5160960 files (4.1% non-contiguous),1723631/10319746
blocks
/dev/hdb7: pretty much the same.
To my kindergarten-level linux-trained mind this doesn't look good for
the /boot partition.
Easy fix? Baby-with-the-bath-water? Chicken-sans-head-dance?
I'd love to fix this rather than reinstall (been there, done that).
Learnin' lots!!
Cameron
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