[CentOS] Server Shut Down!!!!

Wed Apr 9 02:01:24 UTC 2008
Nicolas Sahlqvist <nicco77 at gmail.com>

Harry,

A badly crashed filesystem can seem to be in read only mode, did you check
the mount flags and dmesg messages before rebooting?

Try booting up on a rescue CD and run fsck on all filesystems, if this does
not work I suggest that you apply your backup.


// Nicco


On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 3:48 AM, Harry Sukumar <hsukumar at bond.edu.au> wrote:

>  Good Day All,
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> 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 #*
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> When I press control D the machine reboots itself and comes back to the
> same prompt asking for root password for maintenance
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> Your help in this matter is highly appreciated
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> Many Thanks
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> Harry
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