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 ________________________________________________________________________ ____________ From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080409/23e38be6/attachment-0003.html> -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: e2fsck error message.txt URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080409/23e38be6/attachment-0003.txt>