On 09/08/2012 06:49 AM, Dirk Brandherm wrote:
Hi there,
I hope that someone here will be able to help me with the following. I
recently tried to install a Retrospect backup client to my Scientific Lin
ux
6.1 system. The installation hung, and the next time I tried to boot the
system, it refused to start and hung at this point:
Mounting local filesystems: error writing /etc/mtab.tmp: No space left on
device
error writing /etc/mtab.tmp: No space left on device
error writing /etc/mtab.tmp: No space left on device
mount: devpts already mounted or /dev/pts busy
mount: sysfs already mounted or /sys busy [FAILED]
Enabling local filesystem quotas: [OK]
Enabling /etc/fstab swaps: [OK]
Entering non interactive startup
Calling the system activity data collector (sadc):
Starting monitoring for VG vg_gapqub01: 3 logical volume(s) in volume
group“vg_gapqub01" monitored [ok]
dkms: running auto installation service for kernel 2.6.32-279.5.1el6.x86_
64
And at that point the boot routine stops. I have tried to reboot several
times. The result is always the same. The boot process never proceeds
beyond this point.
I have no clue what happened here. The hard disc certainly should not be
full at this stage. I even booted Scientific Linux from the Live CD to fr
ee
some space deleting a number of old files, but this had no effect. I am a
t
a loss here. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Just off the top of my head...
Did the Retrospect installation procedure alter /etc/fstab ? It may be
useful to boot from a liveCD/USB and check what is in /etc/fstab . If
the installer did touch /etc/fstab, check if the installer backed it up
(probably something like /etc/fstab.bak or /etc/fstab.retrospect.bak)
and diff the two to see what changed.
