[nzlug] Big Problem... ReiserFS

[Dave Lane]

Hi Peter,

Bummer.  What do your partitions look like?  Do you have separate / and 
/var partitions?  You could boot into single user mode (are you using 
Grub or Lilo? in Grub, just edit the boot string to add an "s" at the 
end of it and boot, you'll come up in single user mode) where you should 
be able unmount the relevant partition and run reiserfsck...

Alternatively, and perhaps more straightforward, I'm sure you could 
acquire a live Ubuntu CD or a Knoppix CD from somewhere with a suitably 
current instant of reiserfsck on it, boot into the live CD linux, and 
run reiserfsck on the affected partition.

Hope that helps!

Dave

Peter Harrison wrote:
> This morning I booted up and the machine stopped responding - no mouse,
> no keyboard input. I had to do a hard reboot to restart. Only problem
> was that X didn't come up. This is a Suse 10.1 machine running ReiserFS.
> 
> The problem reported was that X couldn't open /var/log/Xorg.0.log. So I
> drop to root and go have a look. If I do a 'ls' in /var/log I can't see
> the file - but if I 'vi Xorg.0.log' and try and save is says permission
> denied.
> 
> If I do a 'ls -a:more' the file shows up. A 'stat Xorg.0.log' says
> permission denied. So it Looks like some kind of file system
> corruption. 
> 
> Problem is I need to run reiserfsck, but I can't do that on a read/write
> file system. I've been trying to work out how to remount as read only
> but I just get device busy. I installed Suse 10.1 off the net install,
> so I don't have a boot CD.
> 
> Does anyone know how I might fix this?
> 
> 
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