Summary Many Thanks to Bill Campbell, Nicolas Sahlqvist and Barry Brimer The problem turned out to be one of disk had software errors (message attached), I used ubuntu live cd to fix this issue Cheers Harry ________________________________________________________________________ ____________ From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Harry Sukumar Sent: Wednesday, 9 April 2008 11:48 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: [CentOS] Server Shut Down!!!! Good Day All, I have a serious problem on one of my servers running CentOS 5!!! The problem started this way, I wanted to store some data under /home and I got an error message saying it is in the read only mode So I rebooted the machine, Then I see this serious error messages at boot time (I am unable to boot) Here is the Error Message!!! *** Error occurred during the file system check. *** Dropping you to shell; the system will reboot *** when you leave the shell Give root password for maintenance (or type control D to continue): Bash: dircolors: command not found Bash: /usr/bin/id: No such file or directory Bash: [:=: unary operator expected (Repair filesystem)1 # When I press control D the machine reboots itself and comes back to the same prompt asking for root password for maintenance Your help in this matter is highly appreciated Many Thanks Harry -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080409/23e38be6/attachment-0001.html> -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: e2fsck error message.txt URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080409/23e38be6/attachment-0001.txt>
On Wed, Apr 09, 2008, Harry Sukumar wrote:>>Summary>Many Thanks to Bill Campbell, Nicolas Sahlqvist and Barry Brimer>The problem turned out to be one of disk had software errors (message >attached),>I used ubuntu live cd to fix this issueYou are making good backups n'est pas? ... Bill -- INTERNET: bill at celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820 Fax: (206) 232-9186 A perpetual and unlimited debt represents deficit spending as a social principle. It means a progressive redistribution of wealth by will of government until there is no more fat to divide; after that comes a level rationing of the national income. It means in the end the cheapening of money and then inflation, whereby the middle class is economically murdered in its sleep. In the arsenal of revolution the perfect weapon is inflation. -- Garet Garrett, The Revolution Was