Re: enigma-list digest, Vol 1 #1773 - 10 msgs

Hi Jon,

> It's a RHL7.2 server, from what the owners have told me (and you know
> how that goes), they haven't done anything to the server.  They tried to
> reboot it a few days ago because they couldn't get the e-mail to come
> in. It is using lilo.

I have a few clients like that. Take the keyboard away from them and
crazy-glue the power switch shut and the power cables so they can't fubar
it again. They appear to be their own worst enemy.

> I'm not sure of the layout since I'm not in front of the system.  This
> I'll send later.  What I do know is after running e2fsck /dev/hda3 it
> reports clean and this is where all the files and data resides.  issuing
> init=/bin/bash does mount the root fs.

Given a different situation (where the data and programs were isolated
from each other by seperate filesystems) I would say a reinstall is in
order. It appears that you have a config file corruption is my guess.

Hope you have backups of all the important data.

>>
>> > I have a server where as of 2 days ago I cannot get it to boot pass
>> the "freed memory of 219k". In other words it is not loading init
>> fully.  I say fully because if I issue the following I can at least
>> get the root fs loaded. linux init=/bin/bash
>> >
>> > Does anyone know how or what I need to do to get the server up and
>> running again? The 60G HDD is okay as I've run a battery of tests on
>> it and there are no errors?
>>
>> What did you do before the problems started? Install a new kernel?
>> What bootlaoder are yo using, lilo or grub? What kernel version, and
>> what's your filesystem layout? Without this info, we're just shooting
>> in the dark.

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Keith Mastin
BeechTree Information Technology Services Inc.
Toronto, Canada
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