Hi.
I woke up to some strange problems with my linux box. I have a feeling
there are a couple of simultaneous and unrelated problems (murphy's law)
so I don't know where to start :)
The machine multi boots (with boot manager) 95, OS/2 and RH4.2. It
spends most of the time in RH, in fact was up for a continuous period 7
days problem free before today, and it has been running RH 95% of the
time for several weeks with little trouble. I rarely need to boot OS/2
or 95 these days.
I had no problem with it this morning to start with, tho I did notice
netcfg was giving me a 'umanaged device' for the loopback device, which
was new to me. The box is not networked at this stage.
To fill in details, I deleted a 300 meg OS/2 hpfs partition a couple of
weeks back and converted it to ext2, and then shifted /usr/local to this
bigger partition. No problem, at least not until now.
The problem: This morning I shutdown the box to run the memtest86
utility (someone on the list was asking about EDO and mixing chips, so I
checked mine again). That was all I ran, then I rebooted RH via
bootmanager - only to find /usr/local was not mounted. I tried to fsck,
but that just seemed to lock up - tho I could start another
virtual-terminal. Then I found I could not CNTRL-ALT-DEL or shutdown or
so forth.
The strange bit is I ran fdisk only to find that the partition I had
mounted as /usr/local was tagged as hpfs??? Does this mean there was a
fault with the disk? The partition table was apparently altered back to
a previous condition.
I gingerly tagged the drive as 83 and restarted the machine. /usr/local
is now mounted (unchecked at the moment) and all looks fine, but there
are still lots of things that don't work, and I'm too much of a newbie
at this to know how to start to attack this.
Some problems: I can't fsck the partition and I don't get any feedback
from fsck. I can't shutdown the machine in any normal way. I get
complaints during booting about too many arguments or something, but
these don't seem to show with dmesg, they may be unrelated and have
something to do with the loopback device/network stuff?? I'm not sure
what other logs to check? I'd reboot, but I don't seem to have a nice
way to shut the machine down.
I see amd complaining in /var/log/messages, for some reason the local
loopback is screwed up. Would this affect the shutdown? I guess I'll
figure that out. Where is the 127.0.0.1 (Ox100007f) address stored at?
Mine seems to suddenly be 0.0.0.0 (0x0) and amd is choking on that
(I guess)
I found some info talking about a /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 file, but I don't
seem to have one of these? I traced some other leads through to a
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-lo
'script' but the total contents of that are
BOOTPROTO=none
It was modified recently, but I guess it's generated by some other
process? I'm guessing that netcfg did this, since ifcfg-ppp0 was
modified at the same time ealier today. I've been using netcfg for
months without any trouble tho.
Anyway, I'm not too worried here as I have another RH box running next
to this one, so I can compare files. I just need to figure which
problems are caused by which faults :)
What really worries me is how my partition table can 'change' like that?
Also a bit of a pain not being able to shutdown. shutdown -r now comes
up with the shutdown message, then I'm back at a prompt? I even tried
reboot -f but that just kills that terminal - so I CNTRL-ALT-Fx to the
next :) I realize now that this just calls shutdown, apparently.
Otherwise the box 'works' sotra okay, I can still do all my normal work
with it.
talk about a stuffed noobee.
thanks,
tim
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Kuttabul, Queensland, Australia.
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