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desertViking

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From: Arizona

Registered: 2005-10-30

Posts: 170

Upgrade to Testing, Hard disk failures

I've upgraded to the new kernel in testing.  I made the necessary changes from "hd?" to "sd?" in menu.lst and fstab.  I am longer able to boot.  This following reflect a boot to the fallback image.

I receive a list of "Buffer I/O error on device sda2" where sda2 is where my home directories are located.

System then responds with

IP-Config: no devices to configure
kinit: mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly.
init: version 2.86 booting

Once it gets to checking the file system, it hangs, and give me the "filesystem check failed" box, and asks me to perform maintenance.
When I give the root password, I mount /dev/sda2, and it attaches to home.  When I change to /home, I see

EXT3-fs error (device sda2): ext3_get_inode_loc: unable to read inode block -...
ls: cannot access <dir>: Input/output error

I then umount /home, and fsck /dev/sda2 and get a ton of inode errors where it asks me if I want to ignore the error.  I've tried the auto "yes" feature of fsck, but after 10 minutes or so, it's still streaming errors.
I can access other directories on the disk, but I'm not sure in how much detail.
So, how screwed am I?!

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timtux

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From: Gävle, Sweden

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 178

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Re: Upgrade to Testing, Hard disk failures

The same problem as i got, well, downgrade to the current version of pacman.

I did it this way to downgrade:
Booted an livecd, mounted hda3 (my / ), downloaded the pkg for the old kernel to / .
Edited /etc/fstab /boot/grub/menu.lst and /etc/mkinitcpio.conf back to old.
Fired up archlinux cd and booted into my system with the kernel on the disk, pacman --upgrade kernel.pkg.tar.gz
Rebooted, downgraded the other testing pkgs also.

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