Summary

Many Thanks to Bill Campbell, Nicolas Sahlqvist and Barry Brimer

The problem turned out to be one of disk had software errors (message attached),

I used ubuntu live cd to fix this issue

Cheers

Harry

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From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Harry Sukumar
Sent: Wednesday, 9 April 2008 11:48 AM
To: CentOS mailing list
Subject: [CentOS] Server Shut Down!!!!

Good Day All,

I have a serious problem on one of my servers running CentOS 5!!!

The problem started this way,

I wanted to store some data under /home and I got an error message saying it is in the read only mode

So I rebooted the machine,

Then I see this serious error messages at boot time (I am unable to boot)

Here is the Error Message!!!

*** Error occurred during the file system check.

*** Dropping you to shell; the system will reboot

*** when you leave the shell

Give root password for maintenance

(or type control D to continue):

Bash: dircolors: command not found

Bash: /usr/bin/id: No such file or directory

Bash: [:=: unary operator expected

(Repair filesystem)1 #

When I press control D the machine reboots itself and comes back to the same prompt asking for root password for maintenance

Your help in this matter is highly appreciated

Many Thanks

Harry