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honahursey

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Registered: 2008-08-18

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ext3 filesystem error

Upon bootup, when the system attempts to mount my root filesystem (/dev/sda3), it says that there is an error.  When i run:

e2fsck -p /dev/sda3

it says it cannot find the device.  When

fdisk -l

is run, the same thing happens.

Anyone have any ideas as to why this is happening?

fukawi2

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Re: ext3 filesystem error

Are you sure it's /dev/sda3 ?  What's the output of `df -h` and the contents of your /etc/fstab file?

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honahursey

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Re: ext3 filesystem error

df -h lists /dev/sda3 as mounted as /.  /etc/fstab has /dev/sda3 listed as being mounted on /. 

the output of e2fsck -p /dev/sda3 is:

e2fsck: no such file or directory while trying to open /dev/sda3

fukawi2

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Re: ext3 filesystem error

eeek, that's a strange one

ls -lh /dev/sd*

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honahursey

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Re: ext3 filesystem error

ls -lh /dev/sd* doesn't find anything.  Interestingly, none of my drives partitions are in /dev.

I also tried to run e2fsck in an archlive iso.  It ran fine, no errors at all, but once I booted into arch again the same thing happened.

Last edited by honahursey (2008-10-09 16:14:55)

fukawi2

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Re: ext3 filesystem error

I'm out of ideas, sorry

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Vintendo

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Re: ext3 filesystem error

Aren't they mentioned in /dev/disk/by-* ?

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iDeJ

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Re: ext3 filesystem error

same Problem here.

arch stops upon mounting root filesystem, after giving "maintainance" pw i get the following scenario

/dev is empty (execpt of zero, null and console)
dmesg shows my harddisk as sda2, MS-Windows with /w i2fs can mount my root partition, so everything seems fine here!
but somehow the message "using static /dev filesystem" makes me think!

Problem occured after doing pacman -Syu (previous one was done about 3 days ago) and forcing a remove of the nvidia-driver-beta package from AUR in favour of the /extra package. Had a System lookup while trying KDE4.1 (which now was usable after i discoverd that my beta-driver was older then the official one in /extra) and did a hard reset.

honahursey

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Re: ext3 filesystem error

Your problem is exactly like mine, though i have no idea what caused mine.  I don't think it has much to do with nvidia drivers though, I use intel drivers.

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Re: ext3 filesystem error

iDeJ - What else was updated in your latest Syu?  ( /var/log/pacman.log )

honahursey - Have you done an Syu lately?

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iDeJ

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Re: ext3 filesystem error

[2008-10-09 17:46] upgraded cracklib (2.8.12-1 -> 2.8.13-1)
[2008-10-09 17:46] upgraded cryptsetup (1.0.6-1 -> 1.0.6-2)
[2008-10-09 17:46] upgraded pm-utils (1.2.1-1 -> 1.2.2.1-1)
[2008-10-09 17:46] upgraded udev (119-1 -> 128-5)
[2008-10-09 17:46] upgraded hal (0.5.11-1 -> 0.5.11-4)
[2008-10-09 17:46] upgraded klibc (1.5-6 -> 1.5.14-1)
[2008-10-09 17:46] upgraded klibc-extras (2.4-2 -> 2.5-1)
[2008-10-09 17:46] upgraded klibc-kbd (1.15.20080312-6 -> 1.15.20080312-7)
[2008-10-09 17:46] upgraded klibc-module-init-tools (3.4-1 -> 3.4-2)
[2008-10-09 17:46] upgraded klibc-udev (116-4 -> 128-1)
[2008-10-09 17:46] upgraded libevent (1.3e-1 -> 1.4.8-2)
[2008-10-09 17:46] upgraded libldap (2.3.40-1 -> 2.3.43-3)
[2008-10-09 17:46] upgraded opera (9.52-1 -> 9.60-1)

hmm, might be a bug in udev?

*edit*
found something...
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=56653
i played around with bootsplash quite some time ago, investigating it further

Last edited by iDeJ (2008-10-10 11:25:39)

iDeJ

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Re: ext3 filesystem error

Problem solved by removing bootsplash and replacing the initscripts from community with the ones from /core.

copy ftp://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/arch … pkg.tar.gz to /var/cache/pacman/pkg using a livecd or the ext2ifs driver for win32.

boot arch

remount / as rw (using the command given by arch)

pacman -S initscripts

reboot (and run e2fsck)