[CentOS] Server Shut Down!!!!

Wed Apr 9 02:06:19 UTC 2008
Barry Brimer <lists at brimer.org>

> I have a serious problem on one of my servers running CentOS 5!!!
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> The problem started this way,
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> I wanted to store some data under /home and I got an error message
> saying it is in the read only mode
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> So I rebooted the machine,
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> Then I see this serious error messages at boot time (I am unable to
> boot)
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> Here is the Error Message!!!
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> *** Error occurred during the file system check.
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> *** Dropping you to shell; the system will reboot
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> *** when you leave the shell
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> Give root password for maintenance
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> (or type control D to continue):
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> Bash: dircolors: command not found
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> Bash: /usr/bin/id: No such file or directory
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> Bash: [:=: unary operator expected
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> (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