On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 9:06 PM, jd1008 <jd1008 at gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 06/14/2015 06:47 PM, Animesh Pandey wrote: > >> I actually opened the Virtual Disk Image (.vdi) on http://www.vmxray.com/ >> . >> I could see that despite my disk being of 100GB only ~65GB was being >> shown. >> All the stuff related ot the local user was not visible at all. >> After I restarted my VM, the OS gets stuck here ( >> http://i.stack.imgur.com/KVYxV.png). Even after trying the single user >> login it was stuck there. But the emergency mode worked alright. >> >> On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 8:37 PM, jd1008 <jd1008 at gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >>> On 06/14/2015 06:28 PM, Animesh Pandey wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>>> I am working on Centos6.6 on a VirtualBox on Windows Host. Today I >>>> started >>>> to have booting issues in the OS. It won't get past the loading screen. >>>> I >>>> checked and found that the files related to the user "cloudera" on the >>>> system were not accessible. Only the files related to root were >>>> accessible. >>>> This is why I was am not able to do a single user login but an emergency >>>> login was possible. This is just a guess. >>>> This all happened due to some update in the Virtual Machine that I use >>>> to >>>> run CentOS. >>>> >>>> Is there any workaround for this issue? >>>> >>>> Thanks and regards, >>>> Animesh Pandey >>>> >>>> I wish you could provide more info. >>> >>> How can you determine that inaccessibility to a user's >>> files will prevent centos from taking you all the way to >>> the login (or welcome) screen? >>> >>> I think something else is going on and my guess is that >>> the centos files themselves have been corruped. >>> Can you re-install centos ? >>> >> Please do not top-post. > > I am having trouble following your terminology. > Emergency model? > On my centos installation, there is no "Emergency ...." > to select from the list of kernels to boot. > > Also, when you say "worked alright" do you > mean that you were able to access what you thought > was missing? > Can you go to full multiuser? > > > > >>> _______________________________________________ >>> CentOS mailing list >>> CentOS at centos.org >>> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> >> > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > Sorry for top posting. Let me give you a clearer idea. 1. My regular boot freezes after loading is completed. 2. I read on the internet that sometimes due to an update in VirtualBox, this error might occur. To rectify it, I must re-install VirtualBox's Guest Additions. For this, I require booting in a Single User Mode. 3. For that, I followed the correct steps as given here ( https://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/Installation_Guide-en-US/s1-rescuemode-booting-single.html). But still the system froze on that same point. 4. Then I read about an Emergency mode which is even lower level to that of Single User mode. I was able to log in and see the files that I created/modified as root. I could not see any file/folder that related the local user "cloudera" on which I used to work. This is where I thought of seeing the contents of the Image using vmxray.com and found that a large part of the dick is not visible. This part contains that files related to "cloudera". I felt as if any information related to "cloudera" user has been lost. I basically need to access files that I made as "cloudera" on CENTOS and if possible re-install the Guest Additions that ma solve this issue. But for this I need to be able to boot as a Single User.
