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Greycloack

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Registered: 2004-03-05

Posts: 166

File system (ext3) crashed - in need of assitance

Hi,
I was working on my computer, downloading something using sftp and burninng a cd.
All of the sudden I get messages like "can't find file" and such. I couldn't read all my stuff so I decided to reboot. Everything seems ok, Lilo loads up, and then comes the process parts and I get stuck on :

 mounting root file system read only : failed
cat: /proc/cmdline : no such file or directory /sbin/fsck : error while loading shared libraries : /lib/libblkid.so.1 : invalid ELF header 

And then I get dropped to maintainance shell.

I booted archie and run e2fsck on /dev/hda3 ( my root ext3 system) and it asked to delete some inodes and fix some things. I agreed.
I rebooted again and got the same messege.

Currently I'm writing from windows (dual boot system) and it works ok. Also I can see my files using "explore2fs"

I have no idea how it happend and I would really appreciate any help/idea/aid anything - I'm rather lost...

Thank you,
Grey

test1000

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Registered: 2005-04-03

Posts: 834

Re: File system (ext3) crashed - in need of assitance

my genius suggestion would be to try to run e2fsck sgain and again until it works booting on it. that's what i've done in the past with reiser i think atleast, and that worked, but i don't know...

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Greycloack

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Registered: 2004-03-05

Posts: 166

Re: File system (ext3) crashed - in need of assitance

I tried to run it again, but it didn't find anything... I'll try again later when I get back to my dorms...

iphitus

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2004-10-09

Posts: 4,927

Re: File system (ext3) crashed - in need of assitance

ext3 is pretty durable, so chances of it messing up like you described are unlikely. I'd say you've probably got a hard disk problem.

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: File system (ext3) crashed - in need of assitance

When you boot with archie, can you mount the affected partition? If so, back everything up asap, and recreate the file system.

Greycloack

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Registered: 2004-03-05

Posts: 166

Re: File system (ext3) crashed - in need of assitance

ext3 is pretty durable, so chances of it messing up like you described are unlikely. I'd say you've probably got a hard disk problem.

I was afraid you might say that....
I'll see if I can mount it with Archie, and I'll try to back up my data, it seems my chances of not reinstalling are slim...

brain0

Developer

From: Aachen - Germany

Registered: 2005-01-03

Posts: 1,382

Re: File system (ext3) crashed - in need of assitance

I'll see if I can mount it with Archie, and I'll try to back up my data, it seems my chances of not reinstalling are slim...

I'll guess that fsck actually did repair your filesystem properly, but in doing so deleted some broken files that are necessary for proper system operation. If you could investigated what files exactly are missing, you could reinstall the affected packages. This is much work, so you'll do it script-based I guess.

Greycloack

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Registered: 2004-03-05

Posts: 166

Re: File system (ext3) crashed - in need of assitance

Update :
I can mount my system with Archie. Currently I'm backing up everything I have which is important on my computer back home. Slow process but hopefully will be done in around 2-3 hours if nothing crushes.

I have no idea how to figure out what's missing    any ideas/tips how to reinstall necessery stuff without reinstalling everything?

Snowman

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From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: File system (ext3) crashed - in need of assitance

From the error message in your first post, it seems that /sbin/fsck and /lib/libblkid.so.1 are either missing or corrupted. So you could start by reinstalling e2fsprogs.

Greycloack

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Registered: 2004-03-05

Posts: 166

Re: File system (ext3) crashed - in need of assitance

Hi snowman,

I'd gladly do so, but I don't really know how to install a package when I can not log into my system...
How do I make the installed packages go into the correct folders?

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: File system (ext3) crashed - in need of assitance

pacman's -r flag. Check the man page for details.