[clue-tech] Shoot other foot

[Jack Parker]

I fear that you are correct.  fsck did not automatically go for the
alternate, but gave me the command line suggestion to e2fsck - which I tried
to no avail.  Since then, I've been trying to rebuild and worked up my ankle
to my knee in terms of shooting.  That section of the disk may in fact be
bad.  It hung during format. I've since dropped a spare 40GB IDE into the
mix and am building that out - thus preserving my existing system while
making all of my mistakes on the disposable.

j.

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Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2006 1:38 PM
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Subject: Re: [clue-tech] Shoot other foot


On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 12:14:09PM -0400, Jack Parker wrote:
> How in the heck?  FC4 was locked up this morning.  Rebooted only to get
> Something like this:
>
> ERROR opening /dev/console!!!!: 2
> error dup2'ing fd of 0 to 0
> error dup2'ing fd of 0 to 1
> error dup2'ing fd of 0 to 2
> unmounting old /proc
> unmounting old /sys
> exec of init (/sbin/init) failed!!!!: 2
> Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
>
> Googling around, nothing very useful, but then going into rescue mode I
see
> that my root device is toast.  Other partitions (boot, swap, opt) are ok,
> but fsck can't find the superblock on /dev/sda3 - which is of course root.

Did fsck check for the back up superblock?  I can't recall if it does
this automatically.

... and I've had things like this happen when hardware begins its slow
spiral to the junk heap.  So you may not want to completely discount
hardware failure.

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If they want really buzzword-compliant "redundancy" they could add
another exchange server as part of a "cluster" of "Windows 2003"
servers with "active directory" so that when things break they
break spectacularly.

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