On Wed, Apr 09, 2008, Harry Sukumar wrote:

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

This sounds like you have a serious disk/controller problem.

I would try booting the system with a Knoppix liveCD (or other livecd of your preference), which should allow you to look at the hard disk to analyze the problem(s), run fsck if fdisk shows that the partition table is intact.

Bill

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 #

I would boot off CD1 or the Install DVD and boot into rescue mode, and check /var/log/messages for any hard drive errors. If there are hard drive errors, I would copy the data off, and then use e2fsck against the partition(s) in question.

Barry