Re: After a power cut my machine cannot boot

2015-09-10 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2015-09-09 at 21:11 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Paul Smith writes: > > > Is there something, apart buying a UPS, that one can do in order to > > minimize the severity of the damage that a power outage can cause? > > A UPS, paired with auto-shutdown software is the best possible > defe

Re: After a power cut my machine cannot boot

2015-09-10 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2015-09-09 at 16:20 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 09/09/2015 04:00 PM, Paul Smith wrote: > > Thanks, Patrick. The default clean installation of F21 does not > > already install a journaling filesystem? > > I think that the default is ext4, which is journalling. LVM is also > the default, a

Re: After a power cut my machine cannot boot

2015-09-09 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Paul Smith writes: Is there something, apart buying a UPS, that one can do in order to minimize the severity of the damage that a power outage can cause? A UPS, paired with auto-shutdown software is the best possible defense against damage due to unexpected power loss. But that's merely a fo

Re: After a power cut my machine cannot boot

2015-09-09 Thread Joe Zeff
On 09/09/2015 04:00 PM, Paul Smith wrote: Thanks, Patrick. The default clean installation of F21 does not already install a journaling filesystem? I think that the default is ext4, which is journalling. LVM is also the default, and I've no idea how that handles these things. My advice is, i

Re: After a power cut my machine cannot boot

2015-09-09 Thread Paul Smith
On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 11:51 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > >> Is there something, apart buying a UPS, that one can do in order to >> minimize the severity of the damage that a power outage can cause? > > Use a journaling filesystem. Thanks, Patrick. The default clean installation of F21 does n

Re: After a power cut my machine cannot boot

2015-09-09 Thread Joe Zeff
On 09/09/2015 03:45 PM, Paul Smith wrote: I will try sysresccd, as Heinz advises. In case that does not work, I will reinstall the system. Fortunately, I have a backup of my home directory and all important files! If you have /home on its own partition, you can just reuse it without reformatti

Re: After a power cut my machine cannot boot

2015-09-09 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2015-09-09 at 23:45 +0100, Paul Smith wrote: > Is there something, apart buying a UPS, that one can do in order to > minimize the severity of the damage that a power outage can cause? Use a journaling filesystem. poc -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or c

Re: After a power cut my machine cannot boot

2015-09-09 Thread Paul Smith
On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 11:09 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: >> >> >> >> on a F21 machine, there occured a power cut. And now I cannot boot the >> >> machine, and when I use the rescue mode and try to run again >> >> >> >> yum update >> > >> > I know I'm coming in late, and judging from other replies t

Re: After a power cut my machine cannot boot

2015-09-09 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Paul Smith writes: On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 7:26 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: >> >> on a F21 machine, there occured a power cut. And now I cannot boot the >> machine, and when I use the rescue mode and try to run again >> >> yum update > > > I know I'm coming in late, and judging from other replies this p

Re: After a power cut my machine cannot boot

2015-09-09 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 09.09.2015, Paul Smith wrote: > What can I do to repair the filesystem? Go to http://www.sysresccd.org and download the sysresccd image to another machine. Then burn in onto a CD and boot from it. If you have the syslinux tools installed, you can run isohybrid sysresccd.iso and then copy t

Re: After a power cut my machine cannot boot

2015-09-09 Thread Joe Zeff
On 09/09/2015 11:56 AM, Paul Smith wrote: Thanks, Dave. Unfortunately, I cannot paste any output here, as I do not have a graphical console on the problematic machine -- it cannot boot in graphical mode. Use this, then: fdisk -l | tee fdisk.txt That will both show you the results of fdisk and

Re: After a power cut my machine cannot boot

2015-09-09 Thread Joe Zeff
On 09/09/2015 11:58 AM, Paul Smith wrote: Thanks, Joe. I have just tried yum-complete-transaction but with no success: the error message ("/lib64/libidn.so.11: file too short"). I kind of thought so, but I figured that it was worth a try. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: After a power cut my machine cannot boot

2015-09-09 Thread Tom Rivers
On 9/9/2015 13:36, Paul Smith wrote: I have already tried to get the libidn rpm from a repo, but again I get the same error with wget ("/lib64/libidn.so.11: file too short"). Have you tried downloading the file from another system and transferring it using a USB flash drive? You may also be

Re: After a power cut my machine cannot boot

2015-09-09 Thread Dave Stevens
On Wed, 9 Sep 2015 19:56:02 +0100 Paul Smith wrote: > On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 7:08 PM, Dave Stevens > wrote: > >> > > >> >> "/lib64/libidn.so.11: file too short". > >> > > >> > Have you repaired your crashed filesystems already? > >> > If you have, try "dnf reinstall libidn libidn2". > >> > >> Th

Re: After a power cut my machine cannot boot

2015-09-09 Thread dwoody5654
On 09/09/2015 01:58 PM, Paul Smith wrote: On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 7:26 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: on a F21 machine, there occured a power cut. And now I cannot boot the machine, and when I use the rescue mode and try to run again yum update I know I'm coming in late, and judging from other replies t

Re: After a power cut my machine cannot boot

2015-09-09 Thread Pete Travis
On Sep 9, 2015 1:58 PM, "Paul Smith" wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 7:26 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > >> > >> on a F21 machine, there occured a power cut. And now I cannot boot the > >> machine, and when I use the rescue mode and try to run again > >> > >> yum update > > > > > > I know I'm coming in

Re: After a power cut my machine cannot boot

2015-09-09 Thread Paul Smith
On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 7:26 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: >> >> on a F21 machine, there occured a power cut. And now I cannot boot the >> machine, and when I use the rescue mode and try to run again >> >> yum update > > > I know I'm coming in late, and judging from other replies this probably > won't work,

Re: After a power cut my machine cannot boot

2015-09-09 Thread Paul Smith
On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 7:08 PM, Dave Stevens wrote: >> > >> >> "/lib64/libidn.so.11: file too short". >> > >> > Have you repaired your crashed filesystems already? >> > If you have, try "dnf reinstall libidn libidn2". >> >> Thanks for your reply, Heinz. >> >> What can I do to repair the filesystem

Re: After a power cut my machine cannot boot

2015-09-09 Thread Joe Zeff
On 09/09/2015 10:36 AM, Paul Smith wrote: on a F21 machine, there occured a power cut. And now I cannot boot the machine, and when I use the rescue mode and try to run again yum update I know I'm coming in late, and judging from other replies this probably won't work, but have you tried yum-c

Re: After a power cut my machine cannot boot

2015-09-09 Thread Dave Stevens
On Wed, 9 Sep 2015 18:46:59 +0100 Paul Smith wrote: > On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 6:43 PM, Heinz Diehl wrote: > > > >> "/lib64/libidn.so.11: file too short". > > > > Have you repaired your crashed filesystems already? > > If you have, try "dnf reinstall libidn libidn2". > > Thanks for your reply, He

Re: After a power cut my machine cannot boot

2015-09-09 Thread Paul Smith
On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 6:43 PM, Heinz Diehl wrote: > >> "/lib64/libidn.so.11: file too short". > > Have you repaired your crashed filesystems already? > If you have, try "dnf reinstall libidn libidn2". Thanks for your reply, Heinz. What can I do to repair the filesystem? I did yum reinstall li

Re: After a power cut my machine cannot boot

2015-09-09 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 09.09.2015, Paul Smith wrote: > "/lib64/libidn.so.11: file too short". Have you repaired your crashed filesystems already? If you have, try "dnf reinstall libidn libidn2". -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fed

After a power cut my machine cannot boot

2015-09-09 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All, While doing yum update on a F21 machine, there occured a power cut. And now I cannot boot the machine, and when I use the rescue mode and try to run again yum update I get the following error: "/lib64/libidn.so.11: file too short". Any ideas? I have already tried to get the libidn